Is light pollution getting better or worse?

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Is the Patient Getting Worse?

Glaucoma care today is often simplified into all or nothing terms with the assumption that if the patient's intraocular pressure (IOP) is above a certain level, glaucomatous disease will progress and when the IOP is lowered to below a threshold, no further progression will occur. This dogma is largely the result of limitations in the resolution of tools currently available to judge progression....

Retirement: for better or worse?

enjoyed much more than work. “I’m so busy I don’t know how I had time to work!” Others are adrift. One of my physician colleagues, recently retired due to illness, and still adjusting, reported that he met another retired doctor, who summed up his retirement this way: “I used to be important.” Retirement and disability are quite different but may overlap. The person who retires because of a dis...

For Better or Worse ? Minireview

embryonic stem (ES) cells (as well as the numerous tools Over the past several years, the scientific and popular available for studying tumor development in the mouse), press has been bubbling over with experimental findings there are two important differences between mice and that would seem to be setting the stage for a magic humans regarding telomeres and telomerase regulation. bullet agains...

Osteoporosis: combination therapy for better or worse.

Osteoporosis is a condition that is associated with an increased susceptibility for fractures. In the past few years, several drugs have become available that can reduce the incidence of fractures in patients with osteoporosis. Since these drugs work through different cellular mechanisms, combining agents of different classes may have an additive or multiplicative effect on fracture risk reduct...