Patients and IP - Should we care?

The thymus and rheumatology: should we care?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The purpose of this review is to discuss the mechanisms of central and peripheral tolerance in relation to T-cell mediated autoimmunity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). RECENT FINDINGS The well established association between major histocompatibility complex class II and RA has led us to understand that T cells, and the adaptive immune response, are important in the pathogenesi...

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Professional attitudes: why we should care.

examining the media portrayal of doctors over the last twenty-one years, shows that more than twice as many negative articles are written as positive ones. Although the ratio remains unchanged over the period of the study, the authors noted that the language used to describe doctors appears to become more negative over time. In the UK the list of clinicians who have been seen to provide substan...

Why should we care about fly tumors?

Drosophila is proving to be a valuable model for studying aggressive tumors induced by the combined activation of EGFR and JAK-STAT signaling. Here we summarize some of the most recent data showing that tissue damage and the modulation of common pathway regulators are at the heart tumor progression and metastasis.

Primary care--directions we should be taking.

In 1978 at Alma Ata, Malaysia endorsed the World Health Organization's Declaration of Health for All through Primary Health Care. Since then Malaysia has made great strides in meeting its objectives. There is now an expanded scope of services with better facilities in the public community polyclinics. Primary Care departments have been established in the local universities, either independently...