To Whom Belong the Streets?

: To Whom Does Mental Health Belong ?

It is interesting to reflect at this time on the issue of Medical Insurance with the demise of UMP so much in the press recently. I am not going to focus on the pros and cons of insurance as such, or on the world-wide insurance industry with its lack of concern for social equity and the genuinely disadvantaged, alongside the obscene payouts to those managers at the top of the scale whether they...

The Need to Belong

I-15: Offering Fertility Services to Whom? With Specific Regards to The Welfare of The Child

Tenascin and thrombospondin belong to the growing

Tenascin and thrombospondin are multimeric glycoproteins with restricted distributions in the embryonic extracellular matrix (for review see Chiquet-Ehrismann, 1991; Erickson and Bourdon, 1989; Frazier, 1991; Sage and Bornstein, 1991). Immunohistochemistry has revealed that tenascin and thrombospondin are particularly abundant in the developing central and peripheral nervous systems as well as ...

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency: whom to test, whom to treat?

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is the major identified genetic risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The biochemical events leading to lung destruction in AATD are well understood, and most of our understanding of the pathogenesis of COPD in general has been acquired through the study of AATD. There is a growing appreciation that early diagnosis of AATD can affect...