Telepathology in Developing Countries - The Cloud with Silver Lining

The Silver Lining of Cloud Computing

“Due to decades of technology acquisitions to fuel growing businesses, enterprises are now facing a breaking point with their IT systems. Some systems can’t share information and workloads, servers are highly underutilized and the cost of energy is becoming greater than the value of the systems the energy powers. In some cases, nearly 70 percent of companies’ IT budgets can be devoted to managi...

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

phamide, and Rituximab Versus FCR Alone in Subjects With Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia] study).8 If the results of this pivotal trial confirm the findings of Byrd et al,7 it will have an important influence on the treatment strategy of patients with CLL. In recent years, 4 drug combination therapies with FCR and alemtuzumab or FCR and mitoxantrone in refractory/relapsed CLL patients wer...

HIV cardiomyopathy: a dark cloud with a silver lining?

A wide variety of cardiac problems have been reported in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These include pericardial effusion, pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, infective endocarditis, and tumours such as lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma.' However, left ventricular dysfunction caused by myo-carditis or cardiomyopathy is emerging as the most important card...

Silver lining in the dark cloud of aneurysm disease.

An ascending aortic aneurysm is a common and very much unwelcome diagnosis that has never been associated with anything positive. We believe, however, that there actually is a silver lining to this disease: aortic root and ascending aortic aneurysms actually protect against atherosclerosis. We have found that patients with ascending aneurysms have both decreased arterial calcification and carot...