One always reviews the journals in January with some trepidation. Wading through the instructions for authors (a problem not encountered with the electronic press!), one is worried that the scientific literature may need resuscitating from the post-holiday somnolence. Fortunately, 2003 has been greeted with a fanfare of important papers in the critical care press, not least in the shape of some...

One always reviews the journals in January with some trepidation. Wading through the instructions for authors (a problem not encountered with the electronic press!), one is worried that the scientific literature may need resuscitating from the post-holiday somnolence. Fortunately, 2003 has been greeted with a fanfare of important papers in the critical care press, not least in the shape of some...

American medicine has evinced a tradition of technological mastery, curative breakthroughs, and unlimited resources. At times, both public opinion and media attention have fostered this perception. From Marcus Welby, MD to ER, the media has depicted the physician as a highly competent practitioner armed with space age gadgetry and, of course, miraculous cure-producing abilities. Popular culture...

and researchers who contributed to this collection are predominantly from several areas of high AIDS prevalence: New York, San Francisco, and Miami; they are the shock troops fighting this epidemic, and it is their experiences with AIDS patients that are elegantly presented. While this edition may be a bit costly for the individual, it should be made available in all medical school and departme...

Cell cultures are developed from tissue samples and then disaggregated by mechanical, chemical, and enzymatic methods to extract cells suitable for isolation of viruses. With the recent advances in technology, cell culture is considered a gold standard for virus isolation. This paper reviews the evolution of cell culture methods and demonstrates why cell culture is a preferred method for identi...

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My paper aims to historicize our understanding of the consumer, a being who nowadays quite often seems to be treated as a quasi-natural entity not only in some sciences, but also in politics, economics and in the media (and all that not only in the West). Specifically, I would like to show how at the beginning of the 20 century advertising deployed various means to bring forth a specific consum...

Endothelial cells derived from human umbilical veins were first successfully cultured in vitro in 1973. Weibel-Palade bodies and the von Willebrand factor antigen were used as morphological, immunohistochemical, and functional markers to unequivocally identify the cells. These landmark studies helped initiate the growth of modern vascular biology.