Editorials: JOHN WESTGATE HOPE, M.D. 1914-1969

[Jean Leliévre (1914-1969)].

Clubfoot: Etiology and Treatment Ignacio V. Ponseti, MD, 1914–

This biographical sketch of Ignacio V. Ponseti, MD, corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Congenital Club Foot: The Results of Treatment, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0720-2 and The Classic: Observations on Pathogenesis and Treatment of Congenital Clubfoot, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-009-0721-1.

John H. Laragh, MD: Clinician-Scientist

John Laragh is an outstanding clinician-scientist who discovered that renin, a mostly forgotten kidney hormone, causes essential hypertension1,2 and its complications.3 This discovery led to two new classes of drugs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which revolutionized the treatment of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease...

Herbert Spiegel, MD 1914-2009: art, science and poetry.

Editorials

Of all the fields of modern technology, robotics is likely to be one of the most influential in changing the very nature of our society. In the past, the term "robot" has tended to conjure up pictures of automatonlike machines, often seen as a threat to people themselves. The concept of the robot goes back many decades, but-with the introduction of modern microelectronics the whole field of rob...