Midwife, Registered Nurse, MSC, PHD(c), Departments of Quality Control, Research and Continuing Education, Elena Venizelou Maternity Hospital, Athens Consultant Neonatologist, PHD, NICU, Donor Human Milk Bank, Elena Venizelou Maternity Hospital, Athens Associate Professor of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, School of Pharmacy, University of Athens Associate Professor of Dietetics and Nutr...

The paper aims to deliver a brief outline of the architectural development and discerned types of architecture of both Germanic and Roman origin on the territories north to the middle Danube. The four centuries of the local development was somehow disturbed during the Marcomannic wars. This large-scale conflict resulted in the Roman military occupation of the neighboring regions (Moravia, South...

Melpomeni Peppa1 and Sotirios A. Raptis2,3 1Endocrine Unit, Second Dept of Internal Medicine-Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens 2Second Dept of Internal Medicine-Propaedeutic, Research Institute and Diabetes Center, Athens University Medical School, Attikon University Hospital, Athens 3Hellenic National Dia...

In 1923, renowned architect Le Corbusier authored what is largely considered to be the bestselling architecture book of all time, Vers Une Architecture ("Towards a New Architecture"). Within the pages of his impassioned manifesto, he claimed that “A house is a machine for living.” Architecture, he claimed, is able to improve people’s lives. For Le Corbusier, Victorian cities were chaotic and da...

1 The Lancet. The statin wars: why AstraZeneca must retreat. Lancet 2003; 362: 1341. 2 Uretsky BG, Thygesen K, Armstrong PW, et al. Acute coronary findings at autopsy in heart failure patients with sudden death: results from the assessment of treatment with lisinopril and survival (ATLAS) trial. Circulation 2000; 102: 611–16. 3 Krum H, McMurray JJV. Statins and chronic heart failure: do we need...

The culture of economic growth and rapid innovation has led the chemical industry to contaminate tens of thousands of locales with hazardous chemicals that are poorly understood. As a result, the chemical industry finds itself at war with citizens who are troubled by the widespread dissemination of industrial poisons and alarmed by the power and unaccountability of the corporations themselves. ...

W e get terribly excited about the issue of drugs in sport. The fear of anabolic agents or stimulants producing superhuman performance has dominated Olympic and professional team sports for many years. It seems however that doping has been present virtually since competitive sports began, with apocryphal stories of various potions being used in ancient times just as pharmacological agents are u...

Wars are increasingly frequent, and the trend has been steadily upward since 1870. The main tradition of Western political and philosophical thought suggests that extensive economic globalization and democratization over this period should have reduced appetites for war far below their current level. This view is clearly incomplete: at best, confounding factors are at work. Trade and democracy ...