Can a disease be conquered by extensive publications, reading guidelines and interminable meetings?

How effective can extensive reading be ?

After reading Robb and Kano’s (2013) study, I was impressed with the sample size of their data pool and results. I think that university administrators should carefully consider their study, since its implications may be applicable across disciplines. Robb and Kano (2013) obtained significant results, shedding more light on how extensive reading can be effective. While reading their study, sinc...

More is Needed before Alzheimer’s Disease can be Conquered

correspondence: Professor Xin YU. Mailing address: Peking University Sixth Hospital, Beijing, China. Postcode: 100191. E-Mail: [email protected] German Neurologist Alois Alzheimer first reported the autopsy results of a fifty year old female patient named Auguste Deter in 1907. The patient presented with classic cognitive and behavioral disorder. The autopsy results showed two abnormal patholog...

Can HSV latency be conquered by current antiviral therapies?

Yellow fever: a disease that has yet to be conquered.

Yellow fever virus (YFV) is the prototype member of the genus Flavivirus, a group of viruses that are transmitted between vertebrates by arthropod vectors. The virus is found in tropical regions of Africa and South America and is transmitted to primates by mosquitoes: Aedes spp. in Africa and Haemagogus and Sabethes spp. in South America. Despite the availability of an effective vaccine, yellow...

Does Diarrhoea Causes Cataract? Can Cataract be Prevented by Aspirin?

Loss of transparency of the lens is termed cataract which is one of the commonest causes of blindness throughout the world. This major health problem appears to be much commoner in many developing countries such as India and Pakistan, where it causes visual disability at a substantially earlier age and several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this higher prevalence in these areas. Re...