Messages from the heart

Intravascular ultrasound tissue characterization: messages from the heart.

Messages from the conference chairs

The content reflects the broad scope of the conference in its coverage of various levels of abstraction and integration in the design of special-purpose computing systems, with sessions on Applications, Arithmetic, Communication, Interfaces and Memory, Instruction Set Extensions, Microarchitecture, Compilers and Optimization, and Scheduling and Codesign. The conference received a number of high...

Messages from the Editorial Board

There has been a wide gap between science and society. The last three hundred years of the history of modern science indicates to us that many research results disappeared or took a long time to become useful to society. Due to the difficulties of bridging this gap, it has been recently called the valley of death or the nightmare stage (Note 1). Rather than passively waiting, therefore, researc...

Relaxing messages from the sarcolemma

593 C o m m e n t a r y In spite of the detailed understanding reached in the last 50 years about the molecular mechanisms of muscle excitability, the localization of the Cl  conductance, G Cl , in muscle has remained highly contended. In this issue, Lueck et al. address this long-standing controversy, measuring directly the Cl  current mediated by the ClC-1 channel using the patch clamp tech...

Is cardiovascular screening in athletes justified? Inconsistent messages from the American Heart Association.

Recent reports from the American Heart Association (AHA) and by lead authors of the 2014 AHA guidelines for cardiovascular screening in athletes present many inconsistencies that need to be critically examined. In three different AHA statements (1996, 2007, 2014), the AHA has endorsed cardiovascular screening: “Both AHA and ESC consensus panels have agreed previously that screening to detect ca...