Was it Polarization or Propaganda?

eResearch - Paradigm Shift or Propaganda

eResearch is a concept or word which has come into vogue in academic research circles since 2000. Fundamentally, it is collaborative and interactive research made possible by the Internet and data and computational grids. But like any other new concept, it can and has been abused and misused by people keen to “jump on the bandwagon”. eResearch presents many challenges, both technical and organi...

It was logical but was it the whole truth?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was initially characterized as a degenerative process (disorder) because of a tendency to describe any disorder that was not well understood and often occurred in the ‘elderly’ as degenerative. In the last ‘15–20’ years, the observation of the presence of risk factors for arterial atherosclerosis in patients with calcific AS, the production of aortic valve calcific...

Was it a vision or a waking dream?

Reminiscent of Wilder Penfield’s famous experiments, Neurologists in France have reported a remarkable case in which intraoperative electrical stimulations of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in a conscious patient induced transient dreamlike states with vivid visual imagery (Herbet et al., 2014). The implicated circuitry and nature of the experiences evoked comparisons with findings from o...

Murder, she wrote or was it merely selective nontreatment?

Was It Malarious Fever or Sun-Stroke Cured by Quinine?

days. What is this "terrible disease" that is cured so easily and safely with quinine? "true cases of insolation"? JSo, I say, most assuredly no-, hundreds upon hundreds of Europeans, Military and Civilian, in India, have lost their lives from this " terrible disease" in the past, and many do now, annually, for want of the great antidote, whose value and power is not known to the mass, even of ...