Editorial: Retinopathy of Prematurity — Then and Now

editorial: retinopathy of prematurity

it has been estimated that each year 50,000 newborns born prematurely and underweight and are candidates to have retinopathy of prematurity (rop) .1 in the developing countries where we see most of the blind children, rop is accused to be one of the essential causes of blindness.2 rop and its consequences (impaired vision and blindness) could be prevented in most cases by an early ocular examin...

Jtubilee Editorial Electrocardiography then and now : where next ?

When the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland met for the first time its initial task was to set up a committee to define the best location for a single chest electrocardiograph lead. The recommendations were agreed with the American Heart Association and a joint report was published in both countries and republished in the first issue of the British Heart Journal.' At that time the ele...

Schizophrenia: Then and Now

EPS—Then and Now

"Slime" played a brief and spectacular role in the 19th century founded by the theory of primordial slime by Ernst Haeckel. However, that substance was never found and eventually abandoned. Further scientific attention slowly began in the 1930s referring to slime as a microbial product and then was inspired by "How bacteria stick" by Costerton et al. in 1978, and the matrix material was conside...

Then and Now