We wanted flying cars, instead we’re getting telepathy: the new boom in neurotechnologies

Everything we always wanted to know about furosemide but were afraid to ask.

Furosemide is a widely used, potent natriuretic drug, which inhibits the Na(+)-K(+)-2Cl(-) cotransporter (NKCC)-2 in the ascending limb of the loop of Henle applied to reduce extracellular fluid volume expansion in heart and kidney disease. Undesirable consequences of furosemide, such as worsening of kidney function and unpredictable effects on sodium balance, led to this critical evaluation of...

We were there…

" review the reviews " to ensure fairness and accuracy of judgment (" Kudos to reviewers for the JGP " ; February 2009; JGP 133:129–130). As to publication policies, the JGP is committed to publishing thoroughly vetted scientific papers of the highest quality with mechanistic insight, with all methods and results needed to establish the conclusions in the body of the paper, ideals we maintain a...

Let’s teach how we think instead of what we know

Despite multiple calls for reform, the curriculum for first-year college chemistry at many universities across the world is still mostly fact-based and encyclopedic, built upon a collection of isolated topics, oriented too much towards the perceived needs of chemistry majors, focused too much on abstract concepts and algorithmic problem solving, and detached from the practices, ways of thinking...

Where we were, where we are, where we are going.

Where We Were… Where We Are… Where We Are Going…

New antiplatelet agents: are we better off now than we were with aspirin?