To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of General and Comparative Endocrinology, the history of only a small portion of crustacean endocrinology is presented here. The field of crustacean endocrinology dates back to the decades prior to the establishment of General and Comparative Endocrinology and the first article about crustacean endocrinology published in this journal was concerned with the...

In the article, “Retrospective analysis of the overt proteinuria diabetic kidney disease in the treatmentof modified Shenzhuo formula for 2 years”, which appeared in Volume 96, Issue 12 ofMedicine, the authors’ affiliations appeared incorrectly. Dr. Hongdong Chen is affiliated with both the Department of Endocrinology, Guang’anmenHospital of China, Academy of ChineseMedical Sciences and the Dep...

Major achievements in reproductive biology and endocrinology have been made during the last year. Two major areas show intense activity and have revised our concepts. There has been continuous high activity in the stem cell field and the advances of stem cell biology are now creating novel possibilities of assisted-reproduction technologies for human use. Another area of interesting development...

More recently, in the hurly-burly of expansion that has followed the development of new virus culture methods, pathological changes in virus infected cells have frequently been neglected. Even the electron microscope was used at first almost exclusively in the study of extracellular virus. Now, in this symposium, sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr. Robert Love has brought togethe...

This book provides a terse summary of the laboratory and imaging methods used in diagnosing endocrine diseases. It starts with an outstanding introductory chapter by Herberts and Noel on "Diagnostic Tests and Clinical Decisions." This essay summarizes statistical and Bayesian methods for selecting diagnostic techniques and deciding which tests are likely to be useful. The second chapter, on "Co...

1Department of Endocrinology, University College Hospital, London, UK 2National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK 3Physicians’ Clinic, London, UK 4Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK 5Endocrinology/General Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 6The Lister Hospital, London, UK 7Roya...

Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; 2 MD, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and History of Medi...