So FCR, so good

Renal denervation--so far so good.

82  © Japi • January 2014 • Vol. 62 Sir, R denervation (RD) is a catheter based method using radiofrequency ablation(RFA)for treatment of patients with resistant hypertension. T h e d a t a f r o m t w o c l i n i c a l trials(Symplicity HTN-1 and Symplicity HTN-2) has proven the safety and efficacy of RD for treating the patients with resistant hypertension.1,2 Symplicity HTN-1 was a non-rand...

Not so good vibrations

Pliny the Elder was one of the first to record it 2,000 years ago: termites are noisy eaters. Their loud chewing generates acoustic emissions that have been proposed to be a method of detecting cryptic attack. But a team from the Commonwealth worker termites might be able to detect vibration/acoustic signals generated by their foraging and use these signals to determine the size of the piece of...

So Far So Good: Emotion in the Peripersonal/Extrapersonal Space

Current accounts of spatial cognition and human-object interaction suggest that the representation of peripersonal space depends on an action-specific system that remaps its representation according to action requirements. Here we demonstrate that this mechanism is sensitive to knowledge about properties of objects. In two experiments we explored the interaction between physical distance and ob...

So what's good about sports?

Good and not so good medical ethics.

In this paper, I provide a brief sketch of the purposes that medical ethics serves and what makes for good medical ethics. Medical ethics can guide clinical practice and biomedical research, contribute to the education of clinicians, advance thinking in the field, and direct healthcare policy. Although these are distinct activities, they are alike in several critical respects. Good medical ethi...