The Thorny Path to Eternal Peace

The Thorny Road to Sustainable Peace:

This paper seeks to understand the dynamics of post-conflict/post-major political transition violence in cities. It examines the transformation of violence in these cities from violence associated with protracted warfare and prolonged civil strife into new forms. The paper argues that post-conflict societies in general and cities in particular do not move from conflict and war into peace and no...

The thorny path linking cellular senescence to organismal aging.

Half a century is fast approaching since Hayflick and colleagues formally described the limited ability of normal human cells to proliferate in culture (Hayflick and Moorhead, 1961). This finding – that normal somatic cells, in contrast to cancer cells, cannot divide indefinitely – challenged the prevailing idea that cells from mortal multicellular organisms were intrinsically ‘immortal’ (Carre...

Oncolytic adenoviruses: A thorny path to glioma cure

Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a rapidly progressing brain tumor. Despite the relatively low percentage of cancer patients with glioma diagnoses, recent statistics indicate that the number of glioma patients may have increased over the past decade. Current therapeutic options for glioma patients include tumor resection, chemotherapy, and concomitant radiation therapy with an average survival ...

Review of Media and the Path to Peace , by Gadi

Minimal clinically significant difference in health status: the thorny path of health status measures?

Health status or health-related quality of life is being recognized as an important outcome when evaluating patients with chronic pulmonary disease. There is growing literature about health status measures in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) has published numerous articles on issues related to health status. The author...