New Paradigms in French Historiography, or the Same Old Ones?

Ebola therapy: Developing new drugs or repurposing old ones?

Advances in managing type 2 diabetes: challenging old paradigms and developing new ones

As is well known, diabetes rates continue to escalate worldwide, adding cost and disease burden to all health-care institutions. Over the last few years, however, a number of diabetes paradigms have been challenged, not least on the best methods to lessen or delay the development of co-morbidities, in particular cardiovascular disease (CVD) (i.e. targeting blood pressure, cholesterol, and smoki...

New viruses shake old paradigms.

Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) can establish latent infection in host cells. The latently infected cells can survive and proliferate with a few viral genes expressed. However, in some Kaposi sarcoma cells, KSHV undergoes a productive life cycle and causes cell lysis. A new study (see the related article beginning on page 124) demonstrates that, after KSHV infection or introduction...

From salvage to recycling – new agendas or same old rubbish?

Recent years have seen increased attention paid by geographers to the phenomenon of household waste recycling. Much of this attention by geographers has focused on contemporary recycling, especially contemporary policy and behaviour. This article takes a wider temporal perspective and considers the antecedent ‘National Salvage Campaign’ of the Second World War. It considers the conceptual lesso...

Concurrent Sweet’s syndrome and erythema nodosum: two manifestations of the same disease or the same spectrum?

Sweet’s syndrome and erythema nodosum are rarely seen together. Herein, we report a case of concurrent Sweet’s syndrome and erythema nodosum and review previous cases.