Revisiting vitamin C in cancer therapy: Is “C” for cure, or just wishful thinking?

Is Synaptic Homeostasis Just wishful thinking?

The bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are secreted polypeptides of the TGF-beta family, whose diverse functions include primary neural induction and the dorsoventral patterning of the neural tube. In this issue of Neuron, Aberle et al. (2002) and Marqués et al. present evidence that BMP receptors may also influence the development of synapses. The results suggest a novel mechanism for regulati...

Vitamin C: cure for the common cold?

The idea that an increased intake of vitamin C may be helpful in fighting the common cold has been around since at least the 1930s, but it was not until 1970 that the publication of Linus Pauling's best seller, Vita min C and the Common Cold, turned the issue into a public controversy. 1 As a result of the interest generated by this controversy, a number of scientifically sound experimental stu...

Vitamin C as Cancer Therapy: An Overview

1. Dept. of Medicine, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E2 2. Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer, Univ. of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX. Introduction The popularity of complementary/alternative therapies (CAM) is an international phenomenon with 25% of UK residents, 50% of the German, French, and Australian populations, and 42...

Surrogate endpoints: wishful thinking or reality?

Wishful Thinking

and we will write to you when there is a bed available yes I know it's painful, and six months is a long time to wait, but I am afraid we have already lost two wards this year because of the cuts. Mrs Thatcher keeps taking money away from us to spend on Trident Missiles Yes I wish you would write to your Member of Parliament about it. Hello Sister, is it tea time yet? Sister: Not yet I'm afraid...