Perhaps it would be of interest to members of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) to eavesdrop on my correspondence with H. J. Muller almost 50 years ago. I will, for the most part, let the letters speak for themselves, with a few brief comments and footnotes. Perhaps most remarkable is the pace of correspondence, which is a match for email today; perhaps the US Post Office was using its fa...

Since the 2005 publication of the randomized European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/National Cancer Institute ofCancer trial that established concurrent radiotherapy (RT) and temozolomide for upfront treatment of glioblastoma (GBM),1 little progress has been made. Thus, itwas remarkablewhen the interim results for the EF-14 trial were published, documenting a 4.9-month incre...

People are concerned about privacy, particularly on the Internet. While many studies have provided evidence of this concern, few have explored the nature of the concern in detail, especially for the online environment. With this study, we have tried to better understand the nature of online privacy concerns; we look beyond the fact that people are concerned and attempt to understand how they ar...

This paper reviews the present knowledge about the nature of hookah (narghile, shisha) ETS and, in the light of the controversy over the actual health effects of cigarette ETS, concludes that the former should not be hyperbolised in an unscientific way as, unfortunately, a WHO report suggests.

Nonsteroidal antiinfl ammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are the most widely used class of therapeutic agents for the treatment of a variety of acute and chronic rheumatic conditions to provide analgesia and supress infl ammation. Most treatment is short-term management for the relief of signs and symptoms in osteoarthritis, but NSAIDs are widely used too in the long-term treatment of patients with rheuma...

Yellow fever (YF) is a haemorrhagic viral disease with a high case fatality rate. It is considered a reemerging infectious disease of remarkable importance. During the last outbreaks in Angola (2015-2016) and Brazil (2016-2017), many cases of YF emerged despite high YF vaccination coverage, increasing the risk of major epidemics in the Americas. Several factors, including the vast border and mi...