Much Ado with Italian Va-Va-"Vroom"

Va, Pensiero

It has come to our attention that one man's demand for respect from a remote village of the Middle East can be rapidly turned into an international call to terminate the ill practices of the old regime. The very core of this revolution is a simple communication system, Face-book. The increase in online social networking endows the modern age with broad freedom of speech. With this powerful cybe...

Proposed comprehensive ototoxicity monitoring program for VA healthcare (COMP-VA).

Prevention and rehabilitation of hearing loss and tinnitus, the two most commonly awarded service-connected disabilities, are high priority initiatives in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). At least 4,000 Veterans, most with significant hearing loss, will receive cisplatin this year, with more than half sustaining permanent hearing shift and nearly 40% developing new tinnitus. With improv...

Much ado about nothing?

I t all started with the submission of an unsolicited review on idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis by IOACHIMESCU et al. [1]. During the review process of this excellent manuscript, the idea evolved to launch a whole series on rare (orphan) interstitial lung disorders in the European Respiratory Journal. Why bother? Well, admittedly, these diseases are rare, but for the affected patient that d...

Much ado about nothing?

Much Ado about Nogo

Three proteins in mature myelin (Nogo, MAG, and OMgp) have been purported to be critical in causing both regenerative failure and minimal sprouting after CNS injury. However, the role of this repulsive trio in vivo has been controversial. Lee et al., in this issue of Neuron, provide evidence that genetically deleting all three major myelin inhibitors either singly or all together does not resul...