Nephroprotection by SGLT2 Inhibition: Back to the Future?

Back to the Future By AL OPPENHEIM

Isaac Asimov once remarked that Bthe secret to being a successful prophet is to never try to predict something that will happen in your own lifetime.[ I hope that at least some of the predictions that I offer in this article are not either too naBve or too fanciful, but in any case, I take some comfort in Asimov’s comment. Looking back at the predictions for 2012 published by the Institute of R...

Zambia : Back to the future ?

Back to the Evolutionary Future

Many books on evolution focus on the distant past or the present. Very few authors addressing a lay audience present what evolutionary changes may look like in the future. Coker has done so in this popular science book intended for a general audience. Basing the text on his similarly named course given at Elon University, the author provides a fascinating account of diverse aspects of evolution...

Perimetry--back to the future?

What does the future hold for the patient with glaucoma? Years and years of repetitive strain injury caused by peri-metric testing, or relief following its replacement by other simpler and less demanding tests? A recent editorial in this journal has drawn attention to these problems,' and applauded the attempt to lessen patient discomfort by shortening the duration of the test.2 It raises the q...

Back to the Future Once ∗

The purpose of this chapter is to update the paper ”Back to the Future – The Story of Squeak, a Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself” (hereinafter simply ”BTF”). As such, the bulk of the text follows the structure of that paper, with comments and new data presented in a parallel sequence. However, a mere update of Squeak’s features and performance would not give a sense of the various forces, ...