Dr. Cameron Turtle: the future of immunotherapy is bright!

Dr. Archibald Cameron.

AMONG TE lives of the many men and women who have been qualified to practise the art of medicine are a number who have moved from that discipline into others where they have made a name and reputation for themselves which they might not have attained to had they remained loyal to their first choice: yet they have brought to their other work something which they learned in the days when their fi...

18F-Labeled Peptides: The Future Is Bright.

Radiolabeled peptides have been the subject of intense research efforts for targeted diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy over the last 20 years. Peptides offer several advantages for receptor imaging and targeted radiotherapy. The low molecular weight of peptides allows for rapid clearance from the blood and non-target tissue, which results in favorable target-to-non-target ratios. Moreover, pe...

Dr Richard Bright (1789—1858)

atomizing of medicine into a series of separate problems, in which, as Jacopo frequently showed, equally opposed positions could be maintained with equal success. His successors faced with this impasse reverted to an ever closer scrutiny of the logical methods involved in reaching these conclusions. Dr Ottoson's conclusion goes far towards explaining the appeal in the sixteenth century of the c...

(Bright) future of dynamic parameters is in the operating theatre.

is in the operating theatre Editor—In their article about the applicability of pulse pressure variation (PPV), Mahjoub and colleagues concluded that ‘a very low percentage of patients satisfied all criteria for valid use of PPV’. Importantly, the study was done in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. As a result, and not surprisingly, 49% were not mechanically ventilated, 25% were mechanically v...

Is the future of Romanian gastroenterology training bright?