'This added to my multiple myopia'

How Relevant Is This to My Practice?

234 1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Changi General Hospital, 2Central 24-HR Clinic Group, Singapore Correspondence: Adj A/Prof Tiing Leong Ang, Chief and Senior Consultant, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889. [email protected] HOW RELEVANT IS THIS TO MY PRACTICE? Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a...

This Stranger, My Son

This is the story of how a conventional middle-class American household?a surgeon, his wife and three normal children?had first to recognise, then to cope with and, finally, to exclude, an abnormal family member. Tony was a beautiful child, the eldest, and apart from long hours of screaming for no apparent reason, he seemed a normal baby. His intellectual and motor development was average, but ...

"This ain't my daddy's AMA".

What will this do to me and my brain? Ethical issues in brain-to-brain interfacing

Recent brain-to-brain interfacing studies provide proof of principle for the feasibility of various forms of direct information transfer between two brains, and may lead to the development of new approaches involving memory, emotions, or senses. What makes brain-to-brain interfaces unique is the transfer of information representing specific messages directly from one brain to another, without i...

This Is My (Post) Truth, Tell Me Yours

This is a commentary on the article 'The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.' It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and 'post truth.' This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, 'post-truth' has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...