Time to speak up for research

Time to speak up for research.

As U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins stated in recent testimony to Congress, “Our nation has never witnessed a time of greater promise for advances in medicine.” Researchers are moving closer to developing a universal flu vaccine, cancer immunotherapy (harnessing the immune system to attack tumor cells) is on the horizon, and the public/private BRAIN initiative w...

Silent Synapses Speak Up

*Department of Psychiatry The existence of silent or ineffective synapses in the †Department of Cellular and Molecular spinal cordwas proposed over 20 years ago (Wall, 1977), Pharmacology based on experimentally induced rapid changes in the Department of Physiology ability of afferents to evoke single unit activity. However, University of California a limitation of this approach was that it was...

Silent clusters – speak up!

Microorganisms have provided mankind with a multitude of useful compounds ranging from industrial enzymes to anti-cancer compounds and antibiotics. With the aging population, our need for treatment principles against cancer, Alzheimer's disease and metabolic disorders is increasing. Also, the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms has become one of our main ...

Time to let the patient speak.

"Listen to the complaint of the patient, however tiresome or irrelevant that may seem. He will eventually tell you what is the matter with him.... It is usually better in terms ofboth care and time to allow the flow to come to a natural halt from exhaustion of either the speaker or the material." The first half of this advice (from an experienced advocate and judge in medicolegal cases and a he...

It's Time for Doctors to Speak Out on Climate Change.