Barbara Therese Murphy, MD, MB, BAO, BCh, FRCPI, widely beloved and world-renowned transplant nephrologist, scientist, visionary, passed away on June 30, 2021, at the age of 56. was born in 1964 South Dublin, Ireland. After attending medical school Royal College Surgeons Ireland, she completed internship, residency, clinical nephrology training Beaumont Hospital Dublin. Presaging Barbara’s futu...

This classic discusses the original publication “Treatment of acromioclavicular injuries, especially complete separation” by Weaver and Dunn, which collaborated to develop a technique for joint reconstruction in 1972. Their surgical described resection 2 cm distal clavicle transfer acromial end coracoacromial ligament into medullary canal clavicle. (modified) Weaver-Dunn procedures have been re...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways. Mast cell derived cytokines may mediate both airway inflammation as well as remodeling. It has also been shown that fibroblasts can be the source of proinflammatory cytokines. In the human airways, mast cellfibroblast interactions may have pivotal effects on modulating inflammation. To study this further, we cocultured normal human lung f...