Medical Professionalization: Pitfalls and Promise in the Historiography

Cannabidiol: promise and pitfalls.

Over the past few years, increasing public and political pressure has supported legalization of medical marijuana. One of the main thrusts in this effort has related to the treatment of refractory epilepsy-especially in children with Dravet syndrome-using cannabidiol (CBD). Despite initiatives in numerous states to at least legalize possession of CBD oil for treating epilepsy, little published ...

DNA Barcoding: Promise and Pitfalls

1529 I n this issue of PLoS Biology, Hebert et al. (2004) have set out to test the resolution and performance of " DNA barcoding, " using a single mtDNA gene, cytochrome c oxidase I (COI), for a sample of North American birds. Before turning to details of this study, it is useful as context to consider the following questions: What is DNA barcoding, and what does it promise? What is new about i...

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY Promise and Pitfalls

\-\'hen does instmctional technology promote learning? The goal of this chapter is to offer one answer to this question by examining the classic distinction between the roles of media versus method in promoting learning. To this end, I first propose a cognitive-affective theory of learning with media from which a set of instmctional design principles are derived. Then, for three different media...

Promise and pitfalls of the Immunochip

Genomewide association studies (GWAS) have proven a powerful hypothesis-free method to identify common disease-associated variants. Even quite large GWAS, however, have only at best identified moderate proportions of the genetic variants contributing to disease heritability. To provide cost-effective genotyping of common and rare variants to map the remaining heritability and to fine-map establ...

The promise and pitfalls of global mHealth.