Too Much Aldosterone—More Common Than We Ever Realized?

Immunodeficiency - “ Much More Common Than We Thought ”

10 years with the development of new genetic techniques more than 100 mutations in various genes were found to be associated with primary immunodeficiencies entities. It should be noted that in some diseases several hundreds of patients were found, while in others only few children were discovered, thus applying that we are dealing with rare situations. Using the same genetic techniques a new c...

Are we ever too old?

The aging population increases the demand of intensive care unit (ICU) treatments. However, the availability of ICU beds is limited. Thus, ICU admission of octogenarians is considered controversial. The population above 80 years is a very heterogeneous group though, and age alone might not be the best predictor. Aim of this study was to analyze resource consumption and outcome of octogenarians ...

Are We Consuming Too Much

I s humanity’s use of Earth’s resources endangering the economic possibilities open to our descendants? There is wide disagreement on the question. Many people worry about the growth in our use of natural resources over the past century. Some of this increase reflects the higher resource demands from a growing world population. But it also reflects the growth of per capita output and consumptio...

Are we consuming too much--for what?

HERMAN E. DALY,∗ BRIAN CZECH,† DAVID L. TRAUGER,‡ WILLIAM E. REES,§ MANSI GROVER, TRACY DOBSON,†† AND STEPHEN C. TROMBULAK‡‡ ∗School of Public Affairs, Van Munching Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1821, U.S.A., email [email protected] †Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, National Capital Region, Alexandria Center, ...

Are we spending too much on HIV?