Weight bias and stigmatisation: what is it and what can we do about it?

Subclinical atherosclerosis: what it is, what it means and what we can do about it

Atherosclerosis is a chronic, progressive, inflammatory disease with a long asymptomatic phase. Disease progression can lead eventually to the occurrence of acute cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction, unstable angina pectoris and sudden cardiac death. While the disease is still in a subclinical stage, however, the presence of atherosclerosis can be identified by several methods, ...

Q&A: What do we know about influenza and what can we do about it?

Influenza pandemics occur when human populations are infected by a variant virus to which a population has no prior immunity. What are the crucial varying genes? The crucial genes are those encoding the two viral surface proteins hemagglutinin (H or HA) and neuraminidase (N or NA). The influenza A viruses [1] that infect mammals like us replicate principally in the epithelial cells of the airwa...

What is aging? What is its role in Alzheimer's disease? What can we do about it?

J. Wesson Ashforda,∗, Craig S. Atwoodb, John P. Blassc, Richard L. Bowend, Caleb E. Finche, Khalid Iqbalf , James A. Josephg and George Perryh Stanford/VA Alzheimer Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA Voyager Pharmaceuticals, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA University of Southern California, Los Angeles...

Elborn " CF asthma " : what is it and what do we do about it ?

"CF asthma": what is it and what do we do about it?

The diagnosis of "CF asthma" is problematic and it is difficult to determine which patients have a combination of CF and asthma and which have asthma like symptoms caused by inflammation of the CF lung. This may not matter, however; the relevance lies in the possible approaches to treatment.