Florigen Coming of Age after 70 Years

Florigen coming of age after 70 years.

Vaccines, coming of age after 200 years.

An overview on the short, only 200 years, past history and future expectations in the field of vaccines is presented. The focus is on development trends and potential rather than individual vaccines. While the first vaccines were a result of keen observation, the further development has been tightly dependent on the development of microbiology to provide both the knowledge basis and the technol...

After Seventeen Years and 70 Issues

SUMMER 2016 3 In 1998, AAAI Publications committee chair Ken Ford invited me to become the Editor-in-Chief of AI Magazine. After two issues as Editor Elect, I became Editor-in-Chief in spring 1999. Now, 70 issues and 17 years later, I am still deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute to AAAI and to the AI community through the editorship. It has been a privilege to guide the magazine’s...

Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus diagnosed after the age of 70 years.

AIMS/BACKGROUND A hospital based prevalence study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in patients diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus after the age of 70 years. The prevalence of visually threatening retinopathy at the time of diagnosis of diabetes was also determined. The association between prevalence of DR and duration of diabetes mellitus, mode of treatm...

Benefit of kidney transplantation beyond 70 years of age

BACKGROUND Kidney transplantation generally improves long-term survival in patients with end-stage renal disease. However, in patients older than 70 years of age, only limited data are available that directly compare the potential survival benefit of transplantation versus dialysis. METHODS All patients aged above 70 years who started dialysis between 1990 and 2005 and were waitlisted for kid...