The wrong time and place

Wrong place at the wrong time: A case of cervical embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma in pregnancy

•First case of NACT in cervical embryonal RMS•Second case occurring in pregnancy•Histological review outlining diagnostic difficulties.

Right pace, wrong place.

Is general practice in the wrong PLACE?

In 1958 John Lykoudis, a dyspeptic smalltown Greek doctor, cured himself with antibiotics. Convinced of infective cause he prescribed his multiple antibiotic formulation ‘Elgaco’ to 30 000 patients with ulcer.1 Barry Marshall, credited with discovering the bacterial cause for ulcers, acknowledges Lykoudis.1 The JAMA considered that the association between acid and ulcer was proof of causation a...

Lipids in the Wrong Place: Visceral Fat and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

There is substantial evidence in both animal (1,2) and human models of lipodystrophy (3) that the accumulation of excessive fat in ectopic sites that normally lack adipose tissue, such as the skeletal muscle and the liver, may trigger whole-body insulin resistance. This article will review the evidence showing the condition of fatty liver as an independent and perhaps better indicator of diseas...

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers’ Careers

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers’ Careers We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firmand age-specific labor deman...