SP-0016: Radiotherapy and immunotherapy combination: paradigm changing or just hype?

Nanomedicine: real commercial potential or just hype?

What is the real commercial potential for nanotechnology and, in particular, nanomedicine? Depends on your definition. For example, if you think nanomedicine refers to Michael Crichton's self-replicating nanorobots traversing the body and healing disease (as in his 2002 novel Prey), I bet you will be waiting a long time (if ever) to see commercial fruition. On the other hand, if you envision na...

Noninvasive coronary angiography: hype or new paradigm?

WHEN SONES INADVERTENTLY PERFORMED THE first coronary angiogram in 1958, he could not anticipate the profound future implications of that event. Four years later, when he reported his experience with more than 1000 procedures, the technique was still considered experimental and was dismissed by many leading authorities in cardiovascular medicine. Yet, the introduction of coronary angiography st...

Web 2.0: next great thing or just marketing hype?

Where you can find the web 2 0 next great thing or just marketing hype emerging technologies center easily? Is it in the book store? On-line book store? are you sure? Keep in mind that you will find the book in this site. This book is very referred for you because it gives not only the experience but also lesson. The lessons are very valuable to serve for you, that's not about who are reading t...

Chips for proteomics: a new tool or just hype?

Novel therapies in AML: reason for hope or just hype?

We have entered the genomic sequencing era in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML); our patients increasingly and justifiably demand personalized treatment based on aberrations of their own leukemia. Except in rare cases we are not yet able to provide truly personalized therapy, so the question of "hope or hype?" posed by the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for this educa...