Evolution: Have Wings Come, Gone and Come Again?

Déjà Vu All Over Again: Is Software Engineering REALLY an Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?

Summer dreams

Have come and gone Quintessential Remnants of summer Rambutans and durians Discarded peels Bustles with activity Lives of other kinds Wriggling and swimming Summer dreams Of warm humid nights Fanning away the creatures of nature That annoying bustle of wings Of lives that emerged from the discards Creatures of nature That fly in search of meals Meals of red Within the meal Enveloped In a protec...

The vulnerable plaque "hypothesis": promise, but little progress.

A PubMed search using the terms “vulnerable plaque” or “high-risk” plaque yields 2,000 references to journal articles published over the past 20 years. Indeed, few concepts in cardiovascular medicine have achieved such intense scientific interest over such a long duration. During this 20-year period, many diagnostic techniques designed to “detect” vulnerable plaques have come and gone. In each ...

Resurrection of Hereditas, a journal with almost 100 years of tradition

For those who followed the fate of Hereditas in the last months may have noticed that the journal terminated its activity by the end of 2014. I am extremely happy to announce that Hereditas is alive again and as a result of this resurrection, I write this Editorial. I must admit that around 8 months ago, I wrote a similar Editorial for the last issue of Hereditas under the wings of the previous...

Have Non-physician Clinicians Come to Stay?; Comment on “Non-physician Clinicians in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Evolving Role of Physicians”

A decade ago, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. The chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. These health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...