We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder – M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cepheids. While rare and difficult to detect, detached eclipsing binaries provide us with the potential to determine these distances with an accuracy better than 5%. The massive photometry obtained in o...

After the establishment of Whipple Procedure in 1935, the surgical techniques for pancreatic surgery evolved rapidly with the improvement of surgical skills, radiology, anesthesiology and intensive care. For now, the mortality rates for Whipple procedure can be achieved by less than 5% [1]. Though this procedure has been optimized over time, however, due to the complex anatomy of the pancreas, ...

Chronic pancreatitis can be a debilitating disease. Resection for complicated disease and in those patients with intractable pain is a major component of therapy. There are potentially important physiological advantages with the pylorus preserving Kausch-Whipple (P-KW) compared to the standard Kausch-Whipple (KW) resection but further prospective studies are required to show this unequivocally....