When the entire body of dogs was exposed to 450 units of Roentgen irradiation a hemorrhagic syndrome developed which was characterized by thrombo-cytopenia, prolonged clotting and bleeding times, and neutropenia. The prothrombin time remained normal until about 24 hours before death. The calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium levels were not altered. Fibrinogen was present but syneresis was poor. T...

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General report on smoking and health (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1964) was the release of the 2014 Surgeon General report The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). During a press conference announcing the report in January 2014, Acting Surgeon Gene...

As academic researchers we have to walk a delicate line when it comes to publishing papers on similar topics, possibly using the same data sets. On one hand, we want to get as many articles published as possible, preferably in high quality journals. We want to leverage the data sets that we have spent considerable effort collecting. On the other hand, we need to be careful not to overuse these ...

The European Commission should be regulating nanosilver, not asking for yet another report on its impact on health and the environment.

TO THE EDITOR: The ultimate scientific mission of our community is to understand how the brain works in health and disease. Because the functions of the brain depend on molecular, cellular, and network level processes, achieving this goal requires the ability to directly interrogate those mechanisms. Doing such work in humans would require the development of noninvasive techniques at appropriat...