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Comparative Medicine: An Inclusive Crossover Discipline




Comparative Medicine is typically defined as a discipline which relates and leverages the biological similarities and differences among animal species to better understand the mechanism of human and animal disease. It has also been defined as a field of study concentrating on similarities and differences between human and veterinary medicine and is increasingly associated with animal models of ...

"Targeted research": an oxymoron that needs to be discussed.

It has been a great honor to represent you dur ing this last year, and it is a great challenge to stand before you now. Table I presents some of the multiple titles I have considered for this pre sentation over the last 10 months. I had a diffi cult time, in early August, when I had to select a final topic and fax my actual title to the Sci entific Program Chair, Bill Petri. I originally though...

[Asbestos, an epidemic that still needs to be controlled].

El asbesto, formado por muy delgados hilos dispuestos en finas fibras, es un compuesto de silicatos1 de cadena doble, resistente al calor, al fuego, a los ácidos y a la fricción, que por su alto punto de fusión es un excelente aislante. Desde la revolución industrial, el asbesto tiene múltiples usos, como en la construcción de motores, calderos, barcos, automotores, trenes, material y ropa aisl...