Presidential Defiance of "Unconstitutional" Laws: Reviving the Royal Prerogative

Are laws against assisted suicide unconstitutional?

0 n 15 February of this year, shortly after the number of people Dr. Jack Kevorkian had helped to commit suicide swelled to fifteen, the Michigan legislature passed a law, effective that very day, making assisted suicide a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. The law, which is automaticallv reDealed six months after a I ‘ newly established commission on death and dying recommends pe...

Presidential addresses of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 1907–2013

Presidents have been required to give an inaugural address on commencing office at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) since its foundation in 1907. All presidential addresses were identified, sourced and assembled into an annotated bibliography. The majority of presidential addresses have been published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygien...

Atrial Fibrillation: The Science behind Its Defiance

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent arrhythmia in the world, due both to its tenacious treatment resistance, and to the tremendous number of risk factors that set the stage for the atria to fibrillate. Cardiopulmonary, behavioral, and psychological risk factors generate electrical and structural alterations of the atria that promote reentry and wavebreak. These culminate in fibrillat...

Reviving the Exosome

In the nucleus of eukaryotic cells, RNA decay in the 3'-5' direction is carried out by a complex of exonucleases called the exosome. Surprisingly, the purified exosome shows only weak activity in vitro. Two papers in this issue of Cell, by LaCava et al. (2005) and Wyers et al. (2005), and a third report by Vanacova et al. (2005) help to solve this riddle by characterizing a new RNA decay-activa...

Is the Clean Air Act unconstitutional?