Today, anyone who follows HIV treatment with a casual interest may get the impression that things are progressing wonderfully. A recent publication of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association asserts that 82 new medicines are in development for treating various aspects of HIV infection. Of these, 36 are antivirals, the kind of drugs that has made the most profound advances against HIV and ...

Editor’s Note: Members of the Journal of Palliative Medicine editorial board include individuals with immense insight, experience and knowledge concerning care near the end of life. As such, I have invited editorial board members to contribute their thoughts to the “Notes from the Editor” column. Over the coming year different board members will share their thoughts on a particular topic of rel...

own views?-which are implicitly if not explicitly revealed in almost eveiy chapter?as to the need for mental nursing to be looked upon as a religious vocation rather than a professional career, and she feels it to be significant that in mental hospitals where the nursing and administrative control is in the hands of Religious Orders (usually in such cases the Rev. Mother is entirely responsible...

A large study by the MAQC consortium has established that different DNA microarray platforms can generate reproducible lists of differentially expressed genes. Now scientists are grappling with the challenges of moving the technology toward the clinic.

The words “pain” and “suffering” are so often used together in clinical practice they sometimes seem to merge into a single concept, with clinicians simply referring to “pain-and-suffering.” Writing in the early 1980s, Eric Cassell bemoaned the fact that the medical literature contained very few studies that specifi cally addressed suffering, although there were hundreds of reports that focused...

Two aspects of the genetics of floral traits in Aquilegia have been studied: flower color and flower development. A recent comparative study showed that species that did not produce floral anthocyanins (the red and blue pigments in most flowers) also had significantly lower expression levels for multiple genes needed to produce the pigments. However, crossing studies suggest that a single gene ...

Than it started – first surgery, then chemotherapy, then radiation, and all over again for several times. Although I was only 11, my mum and my dad explained to me what was going to happen, why my mum needed to remove her breast, why she was going to loose her hair, and why she might be sad from time to time. At first it was OK to deal with it because I was a kid and kids see everything with a ...