Can a Diabetic Medication offer Cardiovascular benefits?

Learning Anatomy: Can Dissection and Peer-Mediated Teaching Offer Added Benefits over Prosection Alone?

Purpose. To evaluate the impact of an optional thoracic dissection elective upon anatomy subject acquisition and determine whether peer-mediated teaching has a beneficial effect. Methodology. First year medical students' results on thoracic anatomy laboratory examinations over a five-year period were obtained. All students were taught in the laboratory using prosected specimens as part of a sta...

The Federal Employees Health Benefits program: what lessons can it offer policymakers?

Cardiovascular Benefits

Diabetic nephropathy: can renoprotection be extrapolated to cardiovascular protection?

Recent years have seen the seemingly unstoppable attack by cardiologists on all diseases that limit cardiovascular health. Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of diabetes mellitus, the subject of an important article in this issue of Circulation1 that relates to renoprotection in type 2 diabetes mellitus. As a background, type 2 diabetes is increasing in incidence and cardiological si...

What can biology really offer computer security?

Biological systems can offer computer security insights into how to engineer more effective artificial systems. While the authors believe this statement to be fundamentally true, it is unhelpfully vague what insights exactly? This paper argues that, in the light of recent paradigm shifts in a number of fields, a key insight biology can give us is a number of concrete engineering principles, in ...