Getting the NHS back on course.

Getting Back on the Field

R eturning an injured or ill athlete safely to practice and, eventually, competition is a crucial role of the team physician. This process usually relies on the daily care and monitoring of athletic trainers and/or physical therapists. Individual athletes all have their strengths and weaknesses. Some tolerate pain and discomfort without a hint of a problem, all in an effort to return to their s...

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Getting Back to Normal

Recently, the power of cells to restore health is being widely recognized. Autologous T cells are being programmed to target specific antigens expressed by previously lethal leukemias, achieving unprecedented apparent cures. Conversely, regulatory T cells are being tested in type 1 diabetes mellitus in an attempt to re-establish immune tolerance in this condition, with some earlier examples of ...

Getting Back to Basics

Advances in understanding basic developmental and physiological processes often have direct relevance to human disease. They provide insights into pathogenic mechanisms and reveal new pathways that can be exploited in diagnosis and the development of therapeutics.

Getting Back to Nature

EVALUATIVE PROPERTIES ARE often thought to be problematic. E.g., they are said to be “unverifiable,” to “play no role in observation,” to be “queer,” to suffer from a “location problem,” and indeed “not [to be] in this world at all.”1 These charges differ in detail, and there are a variety of ways of responding to them.2 However, one general way of vindicating evaluative properties is to show t...