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Ocular findings in Brazilian identical twins with Cohen syndrome: case report.

A case of identical male twins with Cohen syndrome who present multiple ophthalmic findings is reported. The patients were identical 16 year-old twin boys who showed down slanting eyelids, mild ptosis, high-grade myopia, small cortical lens opacities, posterior subcapsular cataracts, myotic and corectopic pupils with poor dilation due to focal iris atrophy and retinochoroidal dystrophy. Ophthal...

The ethics of using medical data from Nazi experiments.

Since the Nuremberg trials, our society has had to confront the reality that the Nazi doctors were guilty of premeditated murder masqueraded as research. Professional modern medicine has had little difficulty condemning the Nazi doctors as evil men. But what is being said of the continued use of the Nazi doctors' medical research? Many scholars are now discovering in reputable medical literatur...

The First Provenance Challenge

Luc Moreau∗, Bertram Ludäscher, Ilkay Altintas, Roger S. Barga, Shawn Bowers, Steven Callahan, George Chin Jr., Ben Clifford, Shirley Cohen, Sarah Cohen-Boulakia, Susan Davidson, Ewa Deelman, Luciano Digiampietri, Ian Foster, Juliana Freire, James Frew, Joe Futrelle, Tara Gibson, Yolanda Gil, Carole Goble, Jennifer Golbeck, Paul Groth, David A. Holland, Sheng Jiang, Jihie Kim, David Koop, Ales ...

Idiopathic giant retinal cyst.

The authors describe a case report of idiopathic asymptomatic giant retinal cyst with underlying hyperpigmentation. Low- and high-frequency ultrasound (ultrasound biomicroscopy) revealed an anechoic giant cyst with two hyper-reflective traction bands between the ciliary body and the anterior base of the retinal cyst. There was no retinal detachment.