Vaccines, coming of age after 200 years

Vaccines, coming of age after 200 years.

An overview on the short, only 200 years, past history and future expectations in the field of vaccines is presented. The focus is on development trends and potential rather than individual vaccines. While the first vaccines were a result of keen observation, the further development has been tightly dependent on the development of microbiology to provide both the knowledge basis and the technol...

Florigen coming of age after 70 years.

Vaccines, depression, and neurodegeneration after age 50 years: another reason to avoid the recommended vaccines

There is growing evidence that a number of the psychiatric disorders are strongly related to glutamate excess. Likewise, recent studies have shown a connection between chronic inflammation and these same disorders. A compelling amount of research links these two observations, excitotoxicity and immune over-reactivity. It is known that systemic activation of the immune system also rapidly activa...

Coming of Age

Emotion Coming of Age

A s the articles in this special issue attest to, emotion is finally coming of age. Affect, as many of the authors suggest, serves a function—it aids survival, and affect regulation is a key human motive. People seek emotions because what emotion makes them feel—the conscious feelings of such things as pain and pleasure—aids survival by promoting approach and avoidance and other action tendenci...