Why We Still Go on Pilgrimages?

why we still need hbv population-based epidemiologic studies

Why do we still permit tobacco use?

Carswell Partners, London, Ontario Correspondence: Mr Norman H Tiffin, 22551 Jury Road, Kamoka, Ontario N0L 1R0. Telephone 226-376-1414, e-mail [email protected] Tobacco smoking has no health benefits. None. It can be argued that nicotine, one of the thousands of compounds in tobacco smoke, can have positive effects on some cognitive functions and may even confer some neuroprotection (1), but gett...

Why should we still care about oncogenes?

Although oncogenes and their transformation mechanisms have been known for 30 years, we are just now using our understanding of protein function to abrogate the activity of these genes to block cancer growth. The advent of specific small-molecule inhibitors has been a tremendous step in the fight against cancer and their main targets are the cellular counterparts of viral oncogenes. The best-kn...

Breastfeeding--why are we still failing?

Global public health recommendations on breastfeeding by WHO clearly state that, “infants should exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health.Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age o...

Why we still need grant peer review.

B ollen et al [1] propose a novel mechanism for allocating research funds that first distributes all available funds equally among all practising scientists and then requires them to transfer a portion of their annual funds to other scientists of their choice. This distributed mechanism, the authors suggest, will substantially reduce the cost of funding allocation, by making proposal drafting a...