Fare Thee Well, Dr. Cooley

Fare well, Human Reproduction.

Bob Edwards and Jean Cohen, the ‘Founding Fathers’ of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), wanted to create a journal for their newly founded scientific society on a par with Fertility and Sterility, the well-established journal of the American Fertility Society (now ASRM). So Human Reproduction (HR) started in 1986 with Bob Edwards, the first editor. He was instru...

Do elderly patients fare well in the ICU?

BACKGROUND A recent update of the Mortality Probability Model (MPM)-III found 14% of intensive care patients had age as their only MPM risk factor for hospital mortality. This subgroup had a low mortality rate (2% vs 14% overall), and pronounced differences were noted among elderly patients. This article is an expanded analysis of age-related mortality rates in patients in the ICU. METHODS Pr...

Will krill fare well under Southern Ocean acidification?

Antarctic krill embryos and larvae were experimentally exposed to 380 (control), 1000 and 2000 µatm pCO₂ in order to assess the possible impact of ocean acidification on early development of krill. No significant effects were detected on embryonic development or larval behaviour at 1000 µatm pCO₂; however, at 2000 µatm pCO₂ development was disrupted before gastrulation in 90 per cent of embryos...

“I KISSED THEE ERE I KILLED THEE”: PERFORMING RACE AND GENDER IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO AND RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON A Thesis by ALICIA PAGE ANDRZEJEWSKI

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD.

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, a pioneering heart surgeon, died November 18, 2016, at age 96. He was born in Houston, TX, on August 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley. From the beginning, Cooley’s career in medicine and his contributions to humanity seem to have been foreshadowed. His father was a prominent Houston dentist, and the attending obstetrician at his birth was Dr Er...