Missing — not dead

Programmed ventricular stimulation: not dead.

The Postmortem Is Not Dead

I am very conscious, ladies and gentlemen, of the honour and responsibility you have conferred on me by asking me to be your president and I shall try to discharge my duties to the best of my ability. I suspect that every president since 1874 has found that his most difficult task is his first one that of addressing you at the annual general meeting. He has, of course, known for a year that he ...

Interesting Case Dead on biopsy is not always dead

Renal infarction usually occurs in a setting of atrial fibrillation or severe renal artery stenosis. Patients with renal infarction usually present with loin pain and may mimic symptoms of acute pyelonephritis. Anuria is usually uncommon unless renal infarction occurs in the setting of a solitary kidney or severe bilateral disease. We report a case of renal artery stenosis in a solitary kidney,...

The brain is not dead when the cortex is dead.

To the Editor: In a recent issue of Critical Care Medicine, with interest we read the article by Dhanani et al (1), concerning vital signs after circulatory arrest following withdrawal of lifesustaining therapy. The article has timely given the persistent controversy regarding criteria of death in circulatory death organ donors. How many minutes after circulatory arrest can we consider the pati...

Web Mail is not Dead!: It's Just Not Human Anymore

Many have noticed that personal communications have slowly moved from mail to social media and instant messaging platforms, especially with younger generation [6]. Yet Web Mail traffic continues to steadily grow. A paradox? Not really. We have observed at Yahoo Research that the nature of email traffic has significantly changed in the last two decades, and it is now dominated by machine-generat...