Over the past year I have worked with several managing partners in helping them transition from one set of leaders to another. The question I often get is when is the time right? Managing partners decide to pass the baton to the next generation of leaders at different times. Some decide it’s time when they are in their early or mid 50s since they want to do other things in life. Others will hol...

We present the case of a 76-year-old Caucasian man with a type 1 endoleak at the proximal edge of a thoracic stentgraft (Talent 38 mm × 114 mm) detected four years after endovascular treatment of a large symptomatic saccular aneurysm in the distal aortic arch. The patient refused any interventional treatment for the endoleak and remained on medical therapy with no evolving symptoms. Surveillanc...

Public health and smoking are old enemies because smoking is among the 10 leading causes of ill health on a global scale and is also possible to prevent, as repeatedly reported (1). In both developed and developing countries, smoking takes its heavy toll of lives every year, both directly and indirectly, through exposure to passively inhaled tobacco smoke (2) or via feto-placental effects. Much...

Clozapine is an effective anti-psychotic and has long been used as an intervention for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. This case report will highlight the use of Clozapine up to 100 mg ON as a second-line medication to achieve satisfactory response after 5 weeks in an adolescent who was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The most common web authentication technique in use today is password authentication via an HTML form, where a user types her password directly into a web page from the site to which she wishes to authenticate herself. The problem with this approach is that it relies on the user to determine when it is safe to enter her password. To resist phishing and other social engineering attacks, a user m...