Dangerous diuretics or death defying drugs?

How dangerous are diuretics?

The proposal that thiazide diuretics may increase cardiovascular risk receives no support from recent data. Current evidence does not indicate that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia is associated with increased ventricular arrhythmias. This evidence includes continuous electrocardiographic monitoring--which is the most sensitive technique for quantitating cardiac arrhythmias. In contrast to earlier...

Death-defying tactics

Death-defying tact ics T here may be 101 ways to kill a cell, but for each there is an escape route. Cells that escape apoptosis, report Anna Colell (Institut d’Investigacions Biomediques de Barcelona, Spain), Jean-Ehrland Ricci (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Douglas Green (St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN), and colleagues, also have a way to escape the back-u...

Forever Young: Death-Defying Neuroblasts

During development, many neural stem cells "age" as they sequentially generate distinct neuronal or glial cell types. In this issue, Maurange et al. (2008) now identify the temporal control factors in Drosophila neural stem cells (neuroblasts) that regulate the fate of stem cell progeny and signal the end of stem cell proliferation.

Dangerous Drugs

Hospitals and Dangerous Drugs