The mantra of improving survival permeates virtually every paper related to prognosis or treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF) in the past two decades. However, the upward trend in the expected duration of life for patients with CF may have lost its momentum. The US and Canadian national CF registries show estimated median survival age increasing to around 32 years in 1989 and 1996, respectively, ...

Tricyclic antidepressants TCAs) are no longer widely prescribed as first choice treatments for depression. In their place have come the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Sales of SSRIs and other new antidepressants have grown massively partly at the expense of tricyclics and partly because of burgeoning antidepressant prescribing in general (Lawrenson et al, 2000; Middleton et al...

In the present issue of this journal, Thor and colleagues attempt to evaluate heat shock protein 27 (also known as the 27 000-dalton stress response protein or srp-27) measured in tumors from breast cancer patients as a prognostic factor (1). They report significant correlations between srp-27 overexpression and other measured prognostic factors as well as between srp-27 overexpression and a sh...

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