The Biographical Turn: Lord Nottingham, His Case

The Sierra Leone HIS Case:

In this article we describe and reflect on an ongoing project to develop an integrated Health Information System (HIS) in Sierra Leone. We emphasise the complexity of such an enterprise and on challenges faced while building a Health Information Infrastructure in the context of a developing country. The main contribution of the paper is the design of a change strategy towards an integrated HIS ...

Reassembling island ecosystems: the case of Lord Howe Island

Exotic species that invade remote islands, usually following human settlement, have had catastrophic effects on native biota. However, on islands it is increasingly feasible to eradicate key exotic species allowing extant native species to recover in situ or to return naturally. The practice of marooning threatened species on islands where the threat is absent, irrespective of whether the threa...

Robert Dick, MD, FRCS, IMS: a biographical note by his grand-nephew.

Robert Dick, born in 1831, was a brother of Sir John's mother, Ellen Dick, the Dicks being long established in Garry, Ballymoney, County Antrim, where Robert's father, also Robert, was an extensive farmer. After schooling at Ballymoney, the young Robert entered Queen's College Belfast in October 1849 (one of the 195 students 55 in medicine2who constituted the first batch of entrants to the newl...

Warburg effect(s)-a biographical sketch of Otto Warburg and his impacts on tumor metabolism.

Virtually everyone working in cancer research is familiar with the "Warburg effect", i.e., anaerobic glycolysis in the presence of oxygen in tumor cells. However, few people nowadays are aware of what lead Otto Warburg to the discovery of this observation and how his other scientific contributions are seminal to our present knowledge of metabolic and energetic processes in cells. Since science ...

The Gardens of the Lord