Daily Archives:February 26, 2016
Africa’s roads to ruin?
Africa’s natural environments and spectacular wildlife are about to face their biggest challenge ever. In a recent paper, my colleagues and I assessed an infrastructure-expansion scheme for Africa so sweeping in scope, it is dwarfing anything the
医疗保险在50岁:漫长的政治斗争
Medicare came into being 50 years ago. In the context of the long history of struggles to obtain national health insurance in the USA, this was a momentous act. Organized efforts to attain national health insurance in
How magnetic interaction between two distant paramagnetic metals is influenced by central diamagnetic cyanidometal?
Magnetism is an ancient and classic physical phenomenon and will be forever interesting topics. Molecule-based magnetic materials, in which the structural building blocks are molecular in nature, are of increasing interest because they provide fundamental insight into
Skin versus nerve as a source of cells for the treatment of spinal cord injury
Following injury to the adult human spinal cord spontaneous repair processes fail resulting in life-long functional deficits below the level of injury, which can include paralysis, absent or abnormal sensory perception, chronic pain, and diminished cardiovascular, respiratory,
Artificial vision by Direct Optic Nerve Electrode (AV-DONE)
There are many blind people in the world. Major causes of blindness are cataract and refractive error according to WHO’s report. But those disease have solutions like surgeries, glasses and contact lens. In spite of recent medical development,
Wait a minute, how come heavier reacts faster?! Quantum effects in biochemistry and medicine
Physics is often thought to be quite irrelevant to Biochemistry and Medicine. But, the very first Physics Nobel Prize in 1901, for the discovery of X-rays, is highly related to Medicine nowadays. This clearly shows that a
Imaging tumor development using next generation raster scan optoacoustic mesoscopy
Cancer is one of the major diseases in the 21st century. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on cancer research in the last half century, but still, our understanding of the disease mechanisms is limited.
A brain haemorrhage during anticoagulant therapy: what therapy next?
We read with interest the articles by Ntaios and by Ricci et al. concerning pros and cons of restarting oral anticoagulants (drugs that work to prevent the coagulation (clotting) of blood) after intracerebral hemorrhage. While we appreciate
A treatment option for laparoscopically-resected uterine leiomyosarcoma with morcellation
A new and frequently utilized treatment option for symptomatic uterine leiomyoma is laparoscopic resection with morcellation so the specimen can be extracted through a small abdominal incision or through the vagina. Despite meticulous preoperative evaluation , some
The genetic secrets of Uveal Melanoma
Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary cancer occurring in the eyes of adults, with 1/100,000 new cases per year in the Western world. Most patients are between 60 and 65 years old. Although it is a
