Time to fix science prizes

Nobel prizes for computational science [The Last Word]

To Fix or Not to Fix? That is the Question.

Eventually, the algorithm for when to intervene on the tricuspid valve during left sided valve surgery will be more robust. Better discriminatory preoperative data will be required to sort the role of annular size, right ventricular function, and pulmonary artery pressures. As for now, there is a paucity of evidence that an aggressive approach to fixing moderate functional TR during left sided ...

Journey to the summits of science: the 2014 Vilcek Foundation prizes.

Eight years ago, the Vilcek Foundation initiated a program of prizes for foreign-born biomedical scientists who have made major contributions to their fields, while living and working in the United States (1). The purpose of the prizes, which include a cash award of $100,000, is to draw attention to the enormous contribution of immigrant scientists to this country and to celebrate individuals h...

Nobel Prizes: Contributions to Cardiology

The Nobel Prize was created by Alfred Nobel. The first prize was awarded in 1901 and Emil Adolf von Behring was the first laureate in medicine due to his research in diphtheria serum. Regarding cardiology, Nobel Prize's history permits a global comprehension of progress in pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutics of various cardiac diseases in last 120 years. The objective of this study was ...

Brains at necropsy: to fix or not to fix?

AIM To investigate whether routine formalin fixation of all brains coming to necropsy increases the rate of detection of brain abnormalities relative to either selective formalin fixation of brain tissue or fresh dissection of all brain tissue at the time of post mortem examination. METHODS A retrospective study of 300 medicolegal necropsies was performed. One hundred cases were examined by d...