One pedigree we all may have come from – did Adam and Eve have the chromosome 2 fusion?

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all. The importance of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration

The tremendous development of knowledge, the accumulation of clinical experience, and the enriching of everyday practice with the results of basic and clinical research created the need for splitting medicine in specialities and sub-specialities. Although this evolution is inevitable in order to meet the complex needs and demands of patients, we have to be aware of the risk of neglecting the ho...

We Have Come a Long Way

Knowledge Representation: How far we have come?

The theory of Knowledge Representation has been one of the central focuses in Artificial Intelligence research over the past 60 years which has seen numerous proposals and debates ranging from very philosophical and theoretical level to practical issues. Although a lot of work has been done in this area, we believe currently, it does not receive enough attention from the research community, exc...

Emergency contraception: have we come full circle?

Two decades ago, Dr. Felicia Stewart, then serving as Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Sacramento, CA, began her campaign to let out of the closet “America's best-kept secret” — emergency contraception (EC) [1]. The method had been suppressed because many providers thought the method was “not effective enough” or would lead women to use it “too much” (in place of using ot...

Who are we? Where did we come from? How religious identity divides and damns us all.

Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, now established, is the only workable explanation we have for the remarkable fact of our own existence, the vast diversity of plant and animal life, the compelling illusion of design in nature, and the architecture of the human mind. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. Our different races and ethnicities hide an essential truth: we are all African...