We Have Chosen Shame and Will Get War

Have we lost the war on obesity?

Libet Do We Have Free Will ?

I have taken an experimental approach to this question. Freely voluntary acts are preceded by a specific electrical change in the brain (the ‘readiness potential’, RP) that begins 550 ms before the act. Human subjects became aware of intention to act 350–400 ms after RP starts, but 200 ms. before the motor act. The volitional process is therefore initiated unconsciously. But the conscious funct...

[Will we still have antibiotics tomorrow?].

Since the discovery of antibiotics, it has been generally believed that these antimicrobials are capable of curing almost all bacterial infections. More recently, the appearance of increasing resistance to antibiotics and the emergence of multiresistant microorganisms have given rise to growing concern among physicians, and that concern has now started to filter through to society in general. T...

PTH Assays: Understanding What We Have and Forecasting What We Will Have

Parathyroid hormone (PTH) assays have evolved continuously for the last 50 years. Since the first radioimmunoassay was described in 1963, several assays based on immunological identification have been published (first generation assays). The routine assays used nowadays are immunometric "sandwich-type". They are based on two different monoclonal antibodies, one amino-terminal and the other carb...

Will We Be Ready for the Next War?

TO THE EDITOR—The title of Dr Schooley's editorial, " All's (Almost) Quiet on the Western Front: Will We Be Ready for the Next War? " [1] raises a key question: What is the role of the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the Ebola outbreak response? Because Ebola is a biological warfare threat, the DoD has been developing medical countermeasures through its biological defense program for more tha...