The IMS: charting a course forward

South African Psychiatry - charting a way forward.

Charting the course of renal cryoinjury

We sought to characterize a minor renal cryoinjury that allows investigation into renal damage processes and subsequent endogenous repair mechanisms. To achieve this, we induced a small cryoinjury to mice, in which the transient superficial application of a liquid nitrogen-cooled cryoprobe to the exposed kidney induces a localized lesion that did not impair renal function. The resulting cryoinj...

Commentary Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: charting a course for the future

Imagine you have a choice. Tomorrow, you can either be dead, or you can choose a 1% chance of survival. For most of us, it’s an easy decision; the odds of survival aren’t good, but they are better than certain death. Now imagine that you are trying to persuade a patient not to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). ‘It almost certainly would not work, would only prolong the dying process,...

The Queuine Micronutrient: Charting a Course from Microbe to Man

Micronutrients from the diet and gut microbiota are essential to human health and wellbeing. Arguably, among the most intriguing and enigmatic of these micronutrients is queuine, an elaborate 7-deazaguanine derivative made exclusively by eubacteria and salvaged by animal, plant and fungal species. In eubacteria and eukaryotes, queuine is found as the sugar nucleotide queuosine within the antico...

Charting Tre Course to Enhanced Source Reduction

The report by the National Academy of Science Committee on Institutional Considerations in Reducing the Generation of Hazardous Industrial Waste examines key institutional, or nontechnical, factors that affect the generation of hazardous waste by industry. It provides a framework for evaluating public policies, both regulatory and nonregulatory, to reduce the generation of hazardous waste. The ...