Medical Prospects

Medical biotechnology: Achievements, prospects and perceptions

Whither virology? Trends and prospects in medical research.

FOR just over three-quarters of a century the study of the viruses has furnished a most exciting chapter in the growth of the natural sciences. The story began with the observations of Ivanovsky upon tobacco mosaic disease in 1892 and of Loeffler and Frosch upon foot and mouth disease in 1898. Both studies showed that the respective diseases could be transmitted by filtered extracts from the af...

Pseudobezoars: Technology Progress and New Prospects as a Medical Platform

In recent years, pseudobezoars have been a subject of research, mainly serving as a basis for a new non-invasive alternative to obesity treatment. A pill incorporating the technology has been proven to be successful as a weight loss therapy. It enables patients to sustain a diet longer, due to an increase in the level of satiety, resulting in a smaller amount of food intake. Utilization of the ...

Retraction: Prospects and applications of nanobiotechnology: a medical perspective

This article [1] is retracted as it contains large amount of text that has been duplicated from other articles previously published. We apologize to all affected parties for the inconvenience caused.

Career prospects in medical gastroenterology in the United Kingdom.

There are about 270 physicians with a special interest in gastroenterology distributed throughout the United Kingdom; most of them (91%) are members of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Two-thirds of these physicians regard their post as that of general physician with a special interest in gastroenterology and a quarter as general physician. Very few physicians (nine) practise gastroente...