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I ntroduction: In recent years a number of emerging new therapies have become available for the treatment of severe asthma among which bronchial ther-moplasty is the only nonpharmacologic intervention that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2010. 1 Although bronchial thermoplasty has great promise for the patient with severe asthma and is now within the thera...

We appreciate the opportunity to reply to Dr. Kotze's and Dr. Yamamoto's letter1 about our paper “Prevention of postoperative recurrence with azathioprine or infliximab in patients with Crohn's disease: an open-label pilot study”, recently accepted for publication in JCC.2 We agree with the first comment concerning the hypothesis that the use of anti-TNF (tumor necrosis factor)-α before surgery...

- pericardectomy was first accomplished hi germany in 1913. it is obligatory when a pathologic condition in the pericardium increases pressure on the heart. the most common disease thai causes this process is constrictive pericarditis. tuberculosis was formerly the most common cause of the latter. a retrospective review of pericardectomy for constrictive pericarditis was undertaken in shariati ...

the goal of this section is to provide insights into the thoughts and perspectives of some of dentistry's premier educators. in this issue, aacd conference advisory co-chair dr. hugh flax (hf) interviews dr. david sarver (ds). dr. sarver is scheduled to present at the aacd's 24th annual scientific session in new orleans in may 2008. for more information on aacd's conference, log onto www.aacd.com

Sometimes it seems as if horror is the only story that science has to tell, or the only one we want to hear. Somebody has a gadget they have to build, an experiment too sweet to resist. .. The tug of war between beauty and horror is the theme of " Doctor Atomic. When I was a boy, I looked out into the star-filled sky one night and was awestruck by its beauty. .. A few days later, I happened on ...