Post-Thalidomide Syndrome at 50 Years

50 years on: the crush syndrome.

Dialysis at a crossroads: 50 years later.

The ability to offer repetitive hemodialysis for treatment of chronic kidney failure has now reached its half-century anniversary. Although millions of patients have benefited from this life-extending procedure, current results in the United States have now stagnated with only small annual improvements in survival and continued high hospitalization rates. Recognition that this stagnation may be...

DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years

1 DAC at 50: The Second 25 Years Rob A. Rutenbar University of Illinois at Urbana-­‐Champaign How does one survey a quarter century of technical contributions at a world-­‐class venue like the Design Automation Conference? This was the daunting challenge I faced when asked to survey the second 25 years of DAC’s history at the 50th anniversary conference event in 2013. One can imagine severa...

Multicenter investigation of lifestyle‐related diseases and visceral disorders in thalidomide embryopathy at around 50 years of age

BACKGROUND In utero exposure to thalidomide causes a wide range of birth defects, including phocomelia, hearing loss and visceral disorders, known as thalidomide embryopathy (TE). Fifty years after the first report of TE, we conducted the first cross-sectional multicenter study to investigate the development of lifestyle-related diseases and identify risk factors for visceral disorders in subje...

Infantile Tremor Syndrome--A Tale of 50 Years.

We continue with the second stop of our journey, the July issue of Indian Pediatrics in 1965. This comprised of 41 pages with seven articles that had three research papers (the syndrome of tremors, mental regression and anemia; neonatal blood pressure recording; and effects of long acting sulfonamides), a review on tremors, a case series (diaphragmatic disorders), book reviews and current liter...