Facing an Uncertain Past

Facing the future in uncertain times.

Gallbladder cancer: past, present and an uncertain future.

Although gallbladder cancer (GBC) is the most common malignancy of the biliary tract, its relatively low incidence and confounding symptomatology result in advanced disease at the time presentation, contributing to the poor prognosis and decreased survival associated with this disease. It is therefore increasingly important to understand its pathogenesis and risk factors to allow for the earlie...

Title X: a proud past, an uncertain future.

In the mid and late 1960s, the United States was at war, both abroad and at home. Amidst the battles being fought in Vietnam and in our cities and on the greens of our campuses, President Lyndon Johnson declared war on an entirely different kind of enemy: poverty. President Johnson and a politically divided Congress found the common ground to pass laws for the benefit of the people of the Unite...

Facing up to uncertain life expectancy: the longevity fan charts.

This article uses longevity fan charts to represent the uncertainty in projections of future life expectancy. These fan charts are based on a mortality model calibrated on mortality data for English and Welsh males. The fan charts indicate strong upward sloping trends in future life expectancy. Their widths indicate the extent of uncertainty in these projections, and this uncertainty increases ...

Facing an uncertain future : how forests and people can adapt to climate change

Lo caelli, B. | K an n in en , M . | B ro kh au s, M . | C o ler, C ..P. | M u rd iyrso, D . | S an to o, H . e most prominent international responses to climate change focus on mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases) rather than adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of society and ecosystems). However, with climate change now inevitable, adaptation is gaining importance in ...