Do we understand what it means for dogs to experience emotion?

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

What Do We Know, What Do We Understand?

In this talk I summarize the topics addressed during the conference. We have discussed the most relevant cosmological observations of the last say 10 years and their implications for our understanding of the Universe. My finding throughout this meeting has been that it is amazing how our knowledge of cosmological parameters has improved during the last years. It comes as a surprise to many, tha...

Subclinical atherosclerosis: what it is, what it means and what we can do about it

Atherosclerosis is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory disease with a long asymptomatic phase. Disease progression can lead eventually to the occurrence of acute cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris and sudden cardiac death. While the disease is still in a subclinical stage, however, the presence of atherosclerosis can be identified by several methods, ...

Restenosis: do we need to understand it to treat it?

Restenosis has been the major therapeutic challenge of interventional cardiology over the past two decades. Andreas Grüentzig reported that restenosis occurred in 30% of his initial patient population (1). Since then, the number of patients developing restenosis has increased, largely because of the treatment of more complex cases. In the early to mid-1990s, coronary stents were introduced, and...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet