A worthy adversary for malaria

A worthy experience for a chiropractor.

Is Bleomycin a worthy alternative?

Bleomycin is an antibiotic discovered in 1966 and used as anti-cancer drug. It has also been used as sclerosant for lymphatic malformation with good results and minimum side effect. Like any sclerosant agent, bleomycin is popular for the treatment of lymphatic malformation with publication as recent as in January 2011.[1] Unlike surgery, sclerotherapy is better specially for avoiding injury to ...

Bleomycin: A worthy alternative

CONTEXT Lymphangiomas are developmental anomalies presenting mainly in the first two years of life. Surgical excision has been the mainstay of treatment; however a potentially disfiguring surgery along with presence of important structures in the vicinity and infiltration into surrounding structures makes the dissection difficult. AIMS To study the safety and efficacy of Bleomycin as a sclero...

A Killer Adversary for Quicksort

Quicksort can be made to go quadratic by constructing input on the fly in response to the sequence of items compared. The technique is illustrated by a specific adversary for the standard C qsort function. The general method works against any implementation of quicksort–even a randomizing one–that satisfies certain very mild and realistic assumptions. When using quicksort one often feels a nagg...

Simulation for undergraduates: is there a worthy return on investment?

TO THE EDITOR: in the September 2016 issue of Advances in Physiology Education, Chen et al. (1) describe a study in which high-fidelity patient simulators (HFPS) are used in a human pathophysiology course with undergraduate science students. Survey data were very positive, supporting the use of HFPS, and students perceived that they leaned pathophysiology better. Additionally, the authors prese...