Martin Powell suggests that the death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been announced so many times we are at risk of not noticing should it actually happen. He is right. If we ‘cry wolf’ too many times, we risk losing sight of what is important about the NHS and why.

Lars Sundstrom is Director of Enterprise and Translation at the West of England Academic Health Sciences Network [1] (UK), a Professor of Practice in Translational Medicine and Co-Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research at Bristol University [2] (UK), and an honorary Professor of Medicine at Cardiff University (UK). He has extensive experience in translational medicine...

Dr. Isaac Ssinabulya: We share the story of a 36 year old black man who was previously healthy and worked for an electricity distribution company as a meter reader. This required him to ride long distances on a motor cycle which he did comfortably. In early October 2016, he developed ‘abdominal pain’ which required admission and was treated as peptic ulcer disease. There were no other associate...

Interview with Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD by Claire Raison (Commissioning Editor). Professor Madhukar Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley (CA, USA) and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (CA, USA). He is currently an associate pro...

Born in Belém, State of Pará, Brazil, he already demonstrated a special affection to insects during his childhood. At the end of his secondary studies, he worked as a technician for the National Department of Rural Endemic Diseases, the institution responsible for combating vectors in Brazil and the precursor of the Superintendence of Public Health Campaigns (SUCAM, a Brazilian public instituti...

We have studied the stability of mixed (3)He/(4)He clusters in L=0 states by the diffusion Monte Carlo method, employing the Tang-Toennies-Yiu He-He potential. The clusters (3)He(4)He(N) and (3)He(2)(4)He(N) are stable for N>1. The lighter atoms tend to move to the surface of the cluster. The minimum number of 4He atoms able to bind three 3He atoms in a L=0 state is nine. Two of three fermionic...