Another Strike Against Sleepability

Platelet activation: yet another strike against routine TRANSFUSION.

In the past, anaemia in patients with established coronary artery disease, especially acute anaemia as a result of bleeding, has been treated with a relatively liberal use of allogenic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. RBC transfusions are believed to increase oxygen delivery by increasing haemoglobin concentration. Therefore, transfusion would seem to be a logical approach, as anaemia is asso...

Another weapon against amyloid.

A lzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of those conditions that, like cancer in earlier generations, inspires particular terror among the general public. Therapeutic advances have lagged behind insights into genetics and pathophysiology, and although -amyloid (A ), the product of amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleavage, remains the leading suspect among proposed pathogenic factors, its causal role i...

A Nuclear Strike against Listeria— The Evolving Life of LXR

LXRs are members of the nuclear receptor superfamily and function as master regulators of cholesterol metabolism. In the macrophage, they control cholesterol efflux and inhibit the transcription factor NF-kappaB-mediated proinflammatory responses. In this issue of Cell, discover surprising, protective functions for LXRalpha in innate immunity.

Another face of violence against women: Infertility

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Violence against women is a widespread problem and has serious implications on women's health. Infertility, in many ways, is a very stressful condition that affect social and marital life of a couple; moreover, compared to fertile women, infertile women are twice as vulnerable against violence. Our objective was to determine the prevalence of violence and define the effec...

To strike or not to strike.