Easter Holidays

Academic paediatrics: Easter Island or Easter Sunday?

W hen the last tree on Easter Island was felled, the inhabitants belatedly realised that there was no escape from an eon of ‘‘groundhog days’’. Paediatrics, a discipline championed in the UK, faces a comparably monotonous future bereft of innovation and improvement. Levene and Olver present alarming data on staffing changes in UK academic paediatrics between 1999 and 2004. Most worrying is a 26...

Sunday Holidays

. Sir, Will you please find .1 little space for my proposal 111 your valuable paper and oblige. It is rather curious that the medical department should have no holiday unlike other departments, and it is sometimes a matter which causes great inconvenience to its employs. Some years back the work of the Indian dispensaries was light as most of the people were used to the eastern methods of treat...

Happy Holidays

Holidays in the sun.

If you are reading this editorial in the week of publication, chances are that you do not work in one of the countries bordering the Mediterranean. If you are in Scandinavia, this is probably your first opportunity even to read my editorial from July. Most of Europe now takes a full four or five weeks of vacation, usually corresponding to the calendar month of July in the north or August in the...

Radiation holidays stimulate tumor immunity

Radiotherapy is a standard treatment for cancer and is used since a long time as a stand-alone therapy or in combination with surgery and systemic therapies including immunotherapy. Its acts through induction of irreversible DNA damage to which tumor cells are more susceptible because of frequent mutations in DNA repair pathways. Fractioned radiotherapy, given as daily low doses during multiple...