Editorial: Resolving herpes-induced, ocular pathology: can fish oil really do that?

Editorial: Fish and Shellfish Pathology

Endoclitics in Pashto: Can They Really Do That?

A cross-linguistically very rare type of clitic, the endoclitic, occurs in Pashto. Like infixes, endoclitics can be inserted inside of a word, but by splitting words apart into separate nonadjacent pieces which themselves might not have any meaning. Unlike infixes, however, endoclitics are not inflections; their meaning is unrelated to that of their host word. This paper discusses some of the p...

Fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease: do they really work?

Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found abundantly in fish oil, exert pleiotropic cardiometabolic effects with a diverse range of actions. The results of previous studies raised a lot of interest in the role of fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The present review will focus on the current clinical uses of omega-3 fatty acids and provid...

Guest Editorial: Can we really reduce error rates?

Medical Physics has finally made the front page of most major newspapers in the US, including The New York Times. Unfortunately, the headlines have highlighted some of our spectacular failures rather than spectacular achievements. After decades of flying “under the radar screen” we’ve finally made the headlines in a most unfortunate manner. Alas, “medical physicist properly calibrates SRS beam ...

Can we really do computer-aided drug design?

In this article, we discuss what we mean by 'design' and contrast this with the application of computational methods in drug discovery. We suggest that the predictivity of the computational models currently applied in drug discovery is not yet sufficient to permit a true design paradigm, as demonstrated by the large number of compounds that must currently be synthesised and tested to identify a...