Have we been paying attention? Educational anaesthetics in a time of crises

I-36: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis - Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is now considered routine in IVF laboratories with micromanipulation capability and access to genetic diagnostic services. The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of PGD, the number of cycles performed, and the indications for which PGD has been used. This increase has been mirrored by a slow, but steady, increase in the range o...

Educational Accountability and Assessment in Florida: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

We Have Always Been . . . Cyborgs

philosophy of mathematics suited well the ‘‘general emphasisin later nineteenth-century mathematics on revisiting foundationalquestions’’ (p. 61). Pure geometry as it emerged from Frege, Paschand Hilbert, provided a diagram-free, purely sentential notion ofproof, which has lasted unto our own day.In the second, and greater, part of the book, Greaves traces outthe interre...

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults: are we paying sufficient attention?

Heterogeneity has been recently highlighted as a relevant characteristic of diabetes mellitus. The current classification of diabetes mellitus includes two main types of the disease, i.e. type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The latter is by far the most prevalent one. Nevertheless, there is a significant proportion of subjects with autoimmune diabetes mellitus that are classified as type 2 diabetic pat...

Where we have been, where we are going.