The Disease Burden on Our Shoulders

Standing on the Shoulders of our Editors Emeriti.

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Our shared burden of diseases

At the end of the year that saw Ebola virus disease dominate the news, experts warn that other zoonoses also pose serious threats. To prepare for disease outbreaks and avoid global epidemics, health services and researchers may have to adopt a broader perspective, known as the 'One Health' paradigm, which links the health of people, domestic and wild animals, and the ecosystems they inhabit. Mi...

On the Shoulders of Giants

molecular lesions. In his account of the description of Bruton's agammaglobulinemia and DiGeorge syndrome, Dr Clark provides a counterbalance in the clear clinical and scientific thinking which led to their description. The book is not all history however, and we are brought immediately up-to-date with the progress in gene therapy for ADA-SCID and the therapeutic prospects for the future. The c...

On the shoulders of giants...

On the Shoulders of Giants.

These are not the words of a faint hearted poet but of a person that the field of medicine perhaps deems itself indebted to. They were written by Ibn e Sina in his medical poem in a time when medical practices in Europe were speckled with gruesome and agonizing treatments as they were considered at the time. In his words he reflects upon the management of the psychological distress an ailing pe...