Terminal Care on Remote Islands without Doctors

The German experiment: health care without female or Jewish doctors☆☆☆

Jewish and female doctors were not allowed to practice medicine in Germany during Hitler's rule from 1933 to 1945. Data about the consequences of this on the health service are difficult to come by, but what information can be gathered demonstrates a detrimental effect on the nation's health. These data, however, must be interpreted with consideration to the morbidity and mortality from violenc...

Borders without Doctors.

“WHERE WERE YOU? Andy has asked to see you several times,” my friend Karen (one of our nurses) greeted me as I walked into our Palliative Care Unit. “Why? What is bothering him? Is he in pain?” “No! Just wants to see you, I guess. He is transitioning you know . . . ” Transitioning is a euphemism for active dying often used on our unit. “Have you called his family yet?” I asked, knowing full wel...

Doctors without metaphors.

A s I spoke, the family seemed to relax visibly, and began to break into smiles. " Oh, that's wonderful news, wonderful news! " I smiled too, automatically, although I did not think my news—a biopsy finding of advanced glomerulo-sclerosis, irreversible kidney failure—had been so wonderful. It was true that this particular kidney biopsy had been done because of heavy proteinuria and newly diagno...

Doctors Without Answers: Limits, Challenges, and Dilemmas of Humanitarian (Bio)medicine, and Doctors Without Borders

C-Terminal Propeptide of BKA has a Protease Sensitive Structure Without any Inhibitory Effect on BKA

In our previous study, we compared the two α-amylase enzymes from Bacillus sp.KR8104, BKA∆(N44) and BKA∆(N44C193) which is the secreted form of it. The results indicated that the presence of 193 amino acids propeptide in the C-terminal of BKA∆(N44) changed its enzymatic parameters like an uncompetitive inhibitor in comparison to BKA∆(N44C193). In the present study, we cloned the DNA sequence of...