Endocrinology—It Takes All of Us

The winner takes it all.

W e all make mistakes from time to time. I have made my fair share, but none of my mistakes have ever won a prize. In 2002 Lundbeck breached the UK industry code of practice in the way it advertised escitalopram (Cipralex). Escitalopram is the son of citalopram (Cipramil). The company claimed that its new drug, escitalopram was more effective than citalopram, even though the two drugs have exac...

The winner takes it all

We study competing first passage percolation on graphs generated by the configuration model. At time 0, vertex 1 and vertex 2 are infected with the type 1 and the type 2 infection, respectively, and an uninfected vertex then becomes type 1 (2) infected at rate λ1 (λ2) times the number of edges connecting it to a type 1 (2) infected neighbor. Our main result is that, if the degree distribution i...

US health care takes a battering.

to see an international fund established to subsidize drug purchases and delivery systems in the poorest countries. In Norway this month (April) about 50 experts from around the world are meeting at a workshop organized by WHO and the WTO to discuss differential pricing as a means to ensure that the poor have access to essential drugs without undermining the international patents system — a sys...

Neurodegeneration: The Size Takes It All

There is increasing computational evidence that the exceptionally high vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease may be due to their unique axonal architecture and resulting metabolic needs. A new experimental study has actually demonstrated this.

All of us.