Hypothyroidism in pregnancy: From unanswered questions to questionable answers

Pregnancy- Some Unanswered Questions

The definition of pregnancy as the state of a female in the time interval between fertilization of her ova and the expulsion of the foetuses at term, lays focus on the maternal organism and casual thinking tends to emphasize maternal physiology and welfare. In part, this is due to the fact that the maternal organism is reasonably accessible for day to day observations and measurements which do ...

E-Learning: some unanswered questions

Real time encoding of motion: Answerable questions and questionable answers from the fly's visual system

In the past decade, a small corner of the fly's visual system has become an important testing ground for ideas about coding and computation in the nervous system. A number of results demonstrate that this system operates with a precision and efficiency near the limits imposed by physics, and more generally these results point to the reliability and efficiency of the strategies that nature has s...

Conflating Answers: to and from Design Questions

Unanswered questions from Corticus and pragmatic suggestions

Professor Vincent, in an eloquent commentary in Critical Care, calls for a further trial into supraphysiological cortico-steroid therapy in vasopressor-resistant shock [1]. Together with editorials in several of the intensive care journals, he has pointed out many of the shortcomings in the Corticus trial [2]. We would like to add to this chorus by posing a further question to the authors and p...