Sixty Years after Hench—Corticosteroids and Chronic Inflammatory Disease

The General Theory after sixty years

Indanthrone dye revisited after sixty years.

Indanthrone, an old, insoluble dye can be converted into a solution processable, self-assembling and electroluminescent organic semiconductor, namely tetraoctyloxydinaptho[2,3-a:2',3'-h]phenazine (P-C8), in a simple one-pot process consisting of the reduction of the carbonyl group by sodium dithionite followed by the substitution with solubility inducing groups under phase transfer catalysis co...

Sixty years after "Isolating Mechanisms, Evolution and Temperature": Muller's legacy.

THE major broad achievements by the luminaries concept of genetic load (Haldane 1937; Muller 1950; Crow 1993). Other essays in the Perspectives series that of science often distract from our appreciation of their significant but narrower contributions to allied refer to Muller are Paul (1988), Lederberg (1991), Crow (1992), and Crow and Abrahamson (1997). fields. One example is Linus Pauling’s ...

Sixty years of haematology.

T he diamond anniversary of the Journal of Clinical Pathology (JCP) provides the opportunity to reflect of the past 60 years of haematology. It offers the chance to look back as well as forwards. This has been a time of unforeseeable advances, of which I remember only those of the past 40 years. Review of the articles published by the journal in its first decade immediately makes evident the ch...

Sixty years later.

In writings that preceded the creation of our College, Dr Victor Johnston, our first Executive Director, detailed the need to encourage GPs to be active in hospital care, to create proper postgraduate training for general practice, and to enhance research in general practice.1 Fast forward to today: family medicine is much better defined as a discipline, and we have robust standards of training...