Ready to Move Along

Is Psychiatry Ready to Move?

What is "inflammation"? Are we ready to move beyond Celsus?

I nflammation, a term coined by the ancients, is widely used in sports medicine. But what is meant when a clinician tells a patient that symptoms are probably due to inflammation? The question of whether inflammation is helpful or harmful to healing can only be answered after inflammation is defined. This brief analysis of inflammation reveals that the term’s definition has changed dramatically...

Is family medicine ready to move toward having professional researchers?

Ready, STAT, go: transcription factors on the move.

In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Ben-Yaakov et al (2012) explore the contribution of transcription factors (TFs) in directly communicating information about injury between the axon and the nucleus. They show that multiple TFs bind the retrograde molecular motor dynein in injured axons. Focusing on one TF family, the authors reveal that STAT3 is locally translated and activated in injured axon...

Delta cardiac troponin values in practice: are we ready to move absolutely forward to clinical routine?

The improved analytical characteristics of both sensitive and high-sensitivity assays for cardiac troponins I (cTnI) and T (cTnT) have substantially increased the diagnostic sensitivity for early detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (1–3 ). With the ability to detect small increases in circulating cardiac troponins, any cause of myocardial injury will now produce a substantially great...