Internal medicine at the crossroads

Nuclear medicine at a crossroads.

The growth of molecular imaging heightens the promise of clinical nuclear medicine as a tool for individualization of patient care and for improvement of health-care outcomes. Together with greater use of integrated structure-function imaging, clinical nuclear medicine reaches beyond traditional specialty borders into diagnostic radiology and oncology. Yet, there are concerns about the future o...

Herbal medicine at a crossroads.

The development of bioinformatic tools by individual labs results in the abundance of parallel programs for the same task. For example, identification of binding site regions between interacting proteins is done using: ProMate, WHISCY, PPI-Pred, PINUP and others. All servers first identify unique properties of binding sites and then incorporate them into a predictor. Obviously, the resulting pr...

At the Crossroads of Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis.

With increasing andwidespreaduse of bloodproducts in clinical practice, many adverse effects have been observed, although most of the risks involved are now better understood. Common adverse effects include transmission of infectious agents, hemolytic reactions, and circulatory issues such as overload and transfusion-related lung injury. Less well known are the adverse effects on hemostatic fun...

Editorial. At the crossroads.

Colombia at the Crossroads

ove rv i ew The In s ti tute for the Stu dy of Di p l om acy hosted the spring session of the Sch l e s i n ger Work i n g Group on the topic of s tra tegic su rprise in Co l ombi a . Af ter a pre s en t a ti on on four po ten tial scen a rios that may face Co l om bia (see next page ) , S ch l e s i n ger Working Group core mem bers and Co l om bia specialists ex a m i n ed the key factors dri...