A Friend for Ghost by Suzanne Kaufman

A case of McKusick-Kaufman syndrome

McKusick-Kaufman syndrome (MKS) is an autosomal recessive multiple malformation syndrome characterized by hydrometrocolpos (HMC) and postaxial polydactyly (PAP). We report a case of a female child with MKS who was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit of Seoul National University Children's Hospital on her 15th day of life for further evaluation and management of an abdominal cystic m...

Funeral for a friend.

Q&A: Suzanne Topalian on immune therapies.

Suzanne Topalian, MD, professor of surgery and oncology and director of the melanoma program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, discusses progress with drugs that inhibit immune-checkpoint receptors and ligands, including PD-1 and PD-L1 inhibitors.

McKusik Kaufman syndrome.

A 12-years-old male child presented with polydactyly and syndactyly of hands, hypospadias, AND undescended testes. He was a known case of Tetrology of Fallot. One important differential in our case was Bardet-Biedl syndrome, but it was ruled out due to lack of evidence of central obesity, mental retardation and retinitis pigmentosa. At this time, there is no molecular testing available to disti...

Value of a friend, a friend of your friend, and a friend of the friend of your friend: Social discounting in n degrees of separation

Jones and Rachlin (2008) found that the amount of money a person is willing to forgo in order to give $75 to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of perceived social distance, in the same way as occurs in intertemporal choice. This study aimed to extend this finding to the domain of social networks, in which social distance is defined by degrees of separation. A total of 334 partic...