Living with a primary malignant brain tumour: Identifying the elephant in the room

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: The Elephant in Our Living Room.

Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) canbe considered anelephant in our living room. Since Weller1 published his landmark article in 1971 reporting the ubiquity of the problem of cCMV infection in theUnited States and stressing itsmajor public health importance, cCMVhasbeen recognizedas a common congenital infection that can cause liver disease, thrombocytopenia,hearingandvision loss,microcephaly,...

Elephant in the Room

SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT GLIOMAS OF THE BRAIN

The present retrospective study was designed to analyze factors with prognostic values a) within, and b) significantly associated with, short-term (12months or less) and long-term (more than 24 months) survival times, i n 72 consecutive patients treated for malignant gliomas. Among 41 (57%) short-term surviving patients, the absence of both aphasia and motor deficit (as initial presenting ...

The ‘Elephant in the Room’

More than two decades ago, during one of the annual AUA conferences, I was engaged in an interesting conversation with the eminent and visionary Professor Mohamed Ghoneim. During our discussion, I asked him very pointedly why a prominent institution such as the Urological Institution of Mansoura – which at that time was the only institute offering several urological subspecialties as an integra...

The elephant in the room

W ith few exceptions, the amount of money that countries invest into research has stagnated or declined in real value measured against inflation or has even been slashed in absolute terms. The result is that success rates for grant applications have decreased to 10% or below in some countries, which means that scientists need to submit an average of ten proposals to have one funded. This forces...