The hidden dangers of taped jewellery

Hidden Dangers from the Hunt

1613 I 1577, Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen, Germany, to Belgian parents from Antwerp. He lived there until he was 10 years old, when his father died and his mother moved the family back to Antwerp. By age 13, Rubens knew he wanted to be an artist. In 1600, he traveled to Italy where he studied firsthand Renaissance and classical works by masters such as Michelangelo, Bassano, Titian, and...

The hidden dangers of a cancer diagnosis

No one can deny that medical advances have prolonged life and improved the human condition. Yet it is equally true that outcomes of medical encounters are neither universally beneficial nor benign. As long ago as 19 BC, Virgil wrote that it is often the case that “the disease worsens with the treatment.” In the linked paper, Shen and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj. i4218) extend this assertion to ...

The hidden dangers of anaesthetic machines.

 Shark liver oil: hidden dangers.

Hidden dangers of a ‘citation culture’

The influence of the journal impact factor and the effect of a ‘citation culture’ on science and scientists have been discussed extensively (Lawrence 2007; Curr Biol 17:R583–585). Nevertheless, many still believe that the number of citations a paper receives provides some measure of its quality. This belief may be unfounded, however, as there are 2 substantial areas of error that can distort a ...