The Visigoths as the «other» : barbarians, heretics, martyrs

Barbarians at the gate

The paper by Liew et al. in this issue of the Journal confirms other observations on the consequences of switching from branded to generic statins [1]. The common pattern observed is that the staggering costs of lipid-lowering therapy lead to national guidelines and policies that recommend or even dictate switching to generic preparations. This is associated, on average, with a reduction in pha...

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

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Mammalian RGS proteins: barbarians at the gate.

Hundreds or thousands of chemical and physical stimuli regulate the functions of eukaryotic cells by controlling the activities of a surprisingly small number of core signaling units that have been duplicated and adapted to achieve the necessary diversity. The most prevalent of these units, at least in animal cells, are three-protein modules consisting of signal recognition elements (receptors)...

The Greenock medical martyrs of 1864-65.

In the nineteenth century it was not uncommon for doctors to die from infectious diseases, but the death of five young physicians in Greenock--one third of the medical profession in a medium-sized Scottish town--from epidemic typhus, during four consecutive months in 1864-65, was an unusual event. This paper describes the lives and backgrounds of these five doctors, whose deaths in the line of ...