Some Doubts about So-called “Ritsuryo Buddhism”

So-called hypertrophic emphysema.

Before discussing the pathogenesis and clinical aspects of this disease, clarification of some of the pertinent terminological definitions may be in order. Hypertrophic emphysema is the most commonly used designation of this disease. Also, it is known under the following names: genuine emphysema, idiopathic emphysema, diffuse vesicular emphysema, obstructive emphysema, dystrophlc emphysema, pul...

Doubts about dementia diagnoses.

Doubts about quantal analysis.

TO THE EDITOR: In an impressive series of articles, Korn and co-workers (e.g., Faber and Korn 1988; Faber et al. 1992, 1995; Korn et al. 1981, 1982, 1987; reviews in Korn and Faber 1991, 2005) described electrophysiological recordings performed on goldfish Mauthner cells and adjacent inhibitory interneurons. In their founding article, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, Korn and collea...

Appreciating doubts about HIV medicine

Received 25 September 2015; Accepted 6 November 2015; Published 8 December 2015 Copyright: – 2015 Newman CE; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...

Preventing those so-called stillbirths.

Increased recognition of the disproportionately large contribution of newborn health to global child survival has fuelled efforts to address neonatal mortality in resource-limited settings. Stillbirths have not been as well studied despite the fact that more than 3 million stillbirths occur annually, a disease burden that approaches that of postnatal deaths. The poorest countries have the highe...