Earth construction: Lessons from the past for future eco-efficient construction

Stem Cells: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future

The beginning of the search for stem cells was the bombing of civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first use of nuclear weapons in which humans were the target. In retrospect those people who did not die from the blast or the fire but died with the lowest dose of lethal radiation, and the longest time from radiation to death, were those that had destruction of sufficient amounts ...

Cardiomyoplasty reviewed: Lessons from the past, prospects for the future

Cardiac assistance from autologous skeletal muscle offers a practical surgical solution to end-stage heart failure, one that avoids the problems of donor shortage and immune rejection associated with transplanted organs. Dynamic cardiomyoplasty was an implementation of this approach in which skeletal muscle was wrapped around the host heart. This technique received enthusiastic clinical applica...

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION Lessons from the past: directions for the future

New procedures and materials for incontinence and prolapse are proliferating rapidly. Surgical procedures were developed by physicians and carried their names, but over the last 15 years, these procedures are developed by industry and bear the trade names of the companies selling the kits needed to perform them. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves devices, not procedures, and does n...

Climate Change: Lessons for Our Future from the Distant Past

We consider information from many sciences bearing on the causes and consequences of climate change, focusing on lessons from past mass extinctions of life on Earth. The increasing atmospheric levels of the main greenhouse gases are now established, as is their source in human activity. Worldwide temperatures are rising on a high variance stochastic trend. Evidence from the past 500 million yea...

Lessons from the past decade for future health reforms.