Tea, Cakes and a Scalpel

Two Layer Cakes

The penetration of the Semantic Web into bioinformatics is not like other disciplines. Given critical data resources such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the challenges associated with the explosion in the number biological databases, biologists, as a community, are already familiar with the advantages of ontologies and the challenges of information integration. Rather than starting from the peda...

Cutting Cakes Carefully

Ted Hill is professor emeritus of mathematics at Georgia Tech, and has held visiting appointments in Costa Rica, Germany (Gauss Professor), Holland (NSF-NATO Fellow), Israel, Italy, and Mexico. He studied at West Point (B.S.), Stanford (M.S.), Göttingen (Fulbright Scholar), and Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.), and his primary research interests are in mathematical probability, especially optimal-stoppin...

A Scalpel , not a Sledgehammer

Scalpel and Sword

A comparison between cold dissection tonsillectomy with harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy

Introduction: This study aimed to compare operation time, intraoperative bleeding and postoperative pain between cold dissection tonsillectomy and harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy.  Materials and Methods: In this single-blinded clinical trial, 32 patients aged 14–48 were enrolled. Each patient randomly underwent tonsillectomy using the harmonic scalpel on one side and cold dissection on the other...