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What Mosquitos Smell These Days

[What is a reproduced pterygium these days?].

Figura 1 – Pterigios reproducidos. A) Pterigión evidentemente reproducido. B) Postoperatorio con congestión conjuntival intensa en paciente sintomático esde épocas remotas el pterigión se ha definido como una roliferación fibro vascular de la conjuntiva que invade la córea y ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios en medicina que atan desde 1.000 a. C. En la India, Susruta, considerado como l prim...

These are the days of lasers in the jungle

For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land in the tropics. We believe such a database could be assembled for only 5% of funding already ple...

Why would anyone want to become a cardiologist these days?

The above question was asked by a sincere second-year medical resident who was struggling with the decision regarding career choices. Advice received by many, including the Chairman of Medicine, was to become an internist/primary care physician in order to maximize the probability of future employment security. This advice sounds very convincing in today’s marketplace and seems to be supported ...