Polio Can Be Conquered

More is Needed before Alzheimer’s Disease can be Conquered

correspondence: Professor Xin YU. Mailing address: Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing, China. Postcode: 100191. E-Mail: [email protected] German Neurologist Alois Alzheimer first reported the autopsy results of a fifty year old female patient named Auguste Deter in 1907. The patient presented with classic cognitive and behavioral disorder. The autopsy results showed two abnormal patholog...

Can HSV latency be conquered by current antiviral therapies?

Polio will soon be history.

When the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, there were more than 350 000 cases a year in more than 125 countries. In 2003, there were just 784 cases. This year will be critical for the initiative led by WHO, Rotary International, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF. If vaccination campaigns can immunize all children in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and ...

How can Alzheimer's Patients be Helped?

پرستاری از بیمار مبتلا به بیماری آلزایمر چندان ساده نیست. حتی اگر از این امر که اختلال رفتاری فرد نشانه ای از بیماری اوست، آگاه باشید، اکثر مواقع نمی دانید که چگونه باید با او رفتار کنید. در این مقاله روشهای مناسبی ارائه گردیده تا خانواده بیمار بتواند با ۱۰ اختلال رفتاری شایع در بیماران مبتلا بدون احساس ناامیدی و خشم سازگاری یابند. 

Pulmonary tuberculosis with acute respiratory failure: yet to be conquered.

In the current issue of the European Respiratory Journal, KIM et al. [1] nicely discuss a scarcely reported association between pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and acute respiratory failure (ARF). They conclude that this tuberculosis-related critical condition has a high mortality rate and is associated with risk factors predicting poor outcome. However, certain issues in the study require clarific...