Time to revisit national response to pandemics

It's time to revisit Flexner.

Tendons – time to revisit inflammation

It is currently widely accepted among clinicians that chronic tendinopathy is caused by a degenerative process devoid of inflammation. Current treatment strategies are focused on physical treatments, peritendinous or intratendinous injections of blood or blood products and interruption of painful stimuli. Results have been at best, moderately good and at worst a failure. The evidence for non-in...

Pandemics and National Security

Traditionally, national security has been narrowly defined as the preservation of the state from physical threats. Still, emerging diseases and their pandemic potential pose perhaps an even greater national security threat, particularly in this era of globalization when disease can spread more rapidly than in previous eras. Thirty four percent of all deaths worldwide are now attributable to inf...

Rotational Coronary Angiography: Time to Revisit

Although coronary angiography is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, it has many limitations. In standard angiography, the operator acquires multiple views of the coronary arteries in 4-6 projections for the left coronary artery and 2-3 for the right coronary artery to find the diseased area for diagnosis and subsequent treatment of coronary artery disease. Mu...

Energy expenditure in disease: time to revisit?

Knowledge of energy expenditure is especially important in disease, and may in fact help in the understanding of the pathophysiology of wasting associated with disease. Energy requirements in a clinical setting are often 'prescribed' by health professionals, either directly through enteral or parenteral feeding, or perhaps controlled through a hospital diet. Studies initially suggested an incre...