A single cycle of rituximab for the treatment of severe pemphigus. Treatment of severe pemphigus with rituximab: report of 12 cases and a review of the literature. Clinical efficacy of different doses of ritux-imab in the treatment of pemphigus: a retrospective study of 27 patients. Rituximab for treatment-refractory pemphigus and pemphigoid: a case series of 17 patients. in autoim-mune bullous...

What possesses a respected, retired scientist to take on the agonizing task of writing a novel and fighting to get it published? Author Joram Piatigorsky, an emeritus scientist from the National Institute of Health’s National Eye Institute, says quite simply that he had something important to say. Piatigorsky’s novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes (1), centers on a scientist who runs into trouble in an A...

Forensic personal identification is a fundamental topic of forensic sciences and technologies to identify lived subjects, recently deceased bodies and human remains often at a crime scene by using several appropriate techniques. Throughout human history, many different methods were used for personal identification. The most commonly used method was relying on one’s memory to identify the distin...

The poem unfortunately overstated the prospects for a victory over malaria. One hundred ten years later, we contemplate a disaster: more than a million deaths annually from malaria, and something on the order of 400 million malaria cases each year. In Africa, more than 100 children die from malaria every hour. The discovery that mosquitoes transmit malaria (1897–1898) earned Ronald Ross the Nob...

1680 www.thelancet.com Vol 389 April 29, 2017 In 1960, Alphonse Chapanis, turned his attention from engineering to health care. In a study of medicationrelated errors in a 1100-bed hospital, he and his colleague identified seven sources of such errors potentially leading to harm to a patient: medicine omitted, or given to the wrong patient, at the wrong dose, as an unintended extra dose, by the...

Parasitology as a subject has a long history in Africa both in the medical and veterinary fields ranging from the identification of parasites to the development of interventions. For example, both of the parasites of major public health concern in tropical countries were discovered in Africa despite occurring in other parts of the world. Thus, the Plasmodium parasite causing malaria was discove...

INTRODUCTION Emergency departments (EDs) are an important safety net for rural populations. Results of our earlier studies suggest that rural Canadian hospitals have limited access to advanced imaging services and intensive care units and that patients are transferred over large distances. They also revealed significant geographical variations in rural services. In the absence of national stand...