THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE is a proposed agenda, not a developed theological treatise. It is concerned exclusively with work to be done, not with work already accomplished. It is an attempt to establish a context, to present a beginning to a doctrinal conversation that will occupy the Church for a long time. It should therefore be read as an attempt to look at a whole set of contemporary issues whic...

According to James Woodward's influential interventionist account of causation, X is a cause of Y iff, roughly, there is a possible intervention on X that changes Y. Woodward requires that interventions be merely logically possible. I will argue for two claims against this modal character of interventions: First, merely logically possible interventions are dispensable for the semantic project o...

Kingdon and Kathryn Graddy for helpful comments and suggestions. Also I would like to thank Josh Angrist for a useful discussion of the general approach taken in this paper. However, any remaining errors and omissions are mine. Corresponding

Since I am not a clinician I cannot address myself to the clinical syndrome, ESPAS (The Endocrine Society Presidential Address Syndrome), so eloquently described by my predecessor. Since I am not a comedian I cannot spontaneously or even with considerable forethought deliver clever "one-liners" to titillate you after a pleasant evening of camaraderie. Of course I do not feel the constraint of a...

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare tumor of vascular origin. While it can be found in any tissue, it is most often found in lung and liver and usually has an intermediate behavior. EHEs originating from pleural tissue have been less frequently described than those from other sites. Furthermore, to date, all of the cited pleural EHEs were described as highly aggressive. In the pres...

Introduction: For patients with anthracycline-resistant metastatic angiosarcoma, currently there is no available standard for second-line therapy and there is a need for novel effective regimens to improve response rates. Case report: We reported here about a case of a primary angiosarcoma of both breasts in a 34-year-old woman presenting lung metastases. At the completion of 3 cycles of the MA...

BACKGROUND For patients with anthracycline-resistant metastatic angiosarcoma, there is currently no available standard for second-line therapy, and a need exists for novel effective regimens to improve response rates. CASE REPORT We report here on a case of a primary angiosarcoma of both breasts in a 34-year-old woman presenting with lung metastases. Upon completion of 3 cycles of the MAID re...

compounds were /V-acetylcysteine, bismuththiol. calcium glucarate, (±) catechin, diallyl disulfide, glycaric acid, i>-glucaro-l,4-lactone. \-(4hydro\yphenyl)retinamide, n-limonene, mesna, retinole acid, rutin, quercetin, silymarin, and taurine. In examining the nature of compounds that inhibited rat trachea! epithelial cell transformation, several possible chemoprevcntivc mechanisms appeared t...

Hemorrhagic cystitis is a common stem cell transplantation-related complication. The incidence of early-onset hemorrhagic cystitis, which is related to the pretransplant conditioning regimen, has decreased with the concomitant use of mesna and hyperhydration. However, late-onset hemorrhagic cystitis, which is usually caused by the BK virus, continues to develop. Although the BK virus is the mos...