Reaching a milestone

Commentary: Reaching a milestone in diagnosing coeliac disease.

Clinical prediction rules for diagnosis seek to optimise the sensitivity and specificity of our diagnostic approach to a given problem. In this issue of the BMJ, Hopper and colleagues report a rare accomplishment in this regard—a decision rule that achieved 100% sensitivity in disease detection, in this case for coeliac disease. The rule is simple—a positive serological test for IgA antibody to...

Reaching the golden milestone. The 2013 ERS Dublin summit: preparing the road to Rome.

The Milliarium Aureum (or golden milestone) was a monument erected by the Emperor Caesar Augustus near the Temple of Saturn in the central forum of ancient Rome, Italy. All roads were considered to begin from this monument and all distances in the Roman Empire were measured relative to that point. To travel a road and to reach a milestone, one often needs a roadmap. At the first Annual Presiden...

A milestone reached?

Death: a major life milestone.

Death: a major life milestone To the Editor: As senior nursing students, we took a great interest in the article “Nurse-Patient Advocacy and the Right to Die” by Susan C. Ball, MNSc, RN, APN (December 2006, Vol. 44, No. 12, pp. 36-42). We know this is an issue we will likely be presented with early on in our careers, considering the increasing aging population. We applaud the author’s ability t...

Milestone Report

Typical obstacle-recognition systems on mobile robots use stereo-vision or laser ranging to perform classification. The Yeti Robot, a robot designed to perform medium range autonomous traverses in Antarctica and Greenland, is not currently equipped with vision or LADAR, but has a proprioceptive sensor suite including 6-axis IMU, wheel encoders, wheel motor current, and GPS. The purpose of this ...