Go Back Up

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

Clean up or go crazy

A utophagy is needed to clear up dementia-inducing proteins from the cell, report Filimonenko et al. During autophagy, the cell gobbles up its own internal components into membranous structures called autophago-somes, which fuse with multivesicular bodies (MVBs) before delivery to lysosomes, where the sequestered material is degraded. Autophagy is particularly important at times of cell stress ...

Get-Up-And-Go Hospitals and Hotels

Get-up-and-go Hospitals and Hotels Don't get me wrong, I am all gratitude as a patient, a congenital insomniac, and love things going on at night. We live in times of financial entrepreneurism. Thatcherism rules. At the moment there is little hint of extension into the tourist industry on the part of hospitals. This could be changed a bit. John Burton delicately touched on the subject in this j...

CMPA fees will go up - and down.

Time to Go Back to the Original Name

Almost 40 years ago, the first pathogenic human retrovirus was discovered and shown to cause a T-cell leukemia in humans (Poiesz et al., 1980a, 1981). Thus, a new paradigm was established showing that a virus can directly cause cancer in humans. At that time, the only other suspected case was the connection between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Burkitt’s Lymphoma and later nasopharyngeal car...