Modern Sulfonylureas: Dangerous or Wrongly Accused?

Wrongly Accused: Is Race a Factor in Convicting the Innocent?

I made an unusual choice in deciding to write this informal essay about race and innocence. The choice is unusual because my primary purpose in doing so is to flaunt my ignorance on the subject—to reach out to readers for help in clarifying my confusion. I am not, however, overly embarrassed by my ignorance because the subject is one on which no one yet knows very much. The main point of my ess...

ROP is Still Dangerous: Breaking Modern Defenses

Return Oriented Programming (ROP) has become the exploitation technique of choice for modern memory-safety vulnerability attacks. Recently, there have been multiple attempts at defenses to prevent ROP attacks. In this paper, we introduce three new attack methods that break many existing ROP defenses. Then we show how to break kBouncer and ROPecker, two recent low-overhead defenses that can be a...

The most dangerous hospital or the most dangerous equation?

BACKGROUND Hospital mortality rates are one of the most frequently selected indicators for measuring the performance of NHS Trusts. A recent article in a national newspaper named the hospital with the highest or lowest mortality in the 2005/6 financial year; a report by the organization Dr Foster Intelligence provided information with regard to the performance of all NHS Trusts in England. ME...

Appendicitis is easily missed or wrongly diagnosed - imaging is needed

Early repolarization: innocent or dangerous?

Electrocardiographic (ECG) findings of wide QRS complexes in right precordial leads with saddle ST elevation in patients with polyarthritis, palpitations and family history of syncope urged us to review early repolarization syndrome (ERS). ERS is commonly seen in young men. The main ECG features are as follows: wide spread concave ST-segment elevation, more in the precordial leads (usually V2-V...