Otto Deiters, for whom the lateral vestibular nucleus and the supporting cells of the outer auditory hair cells were named, died in 1863 aged 29. He taught in the Bonn Anatomy Department, had an appointment in the University Clinic, and ran a small private practice. He published articles on the cell theory, the structure and development of muscle fibers, the inner ear, leukaemia, and scarlet fe...

The rapid progress in medical technology makes it unavoidable to ration health care. In the discussion how to ration many people claim that principles of justice in distributing scarce resources should be applied. In this paper we argue that medical resources are not scarce as such but scarcity is a necessary by-product of collective financing arrangements such as social health insurance. So th...

The amount of information available in electronic form is growing exponentially , making it increasingly difficult to find the desired information. This is especially true of the World Wide Web, which has no central administration and thus no ordering scheme to help users find the information they need. Furthermore , most of the information is narrative, i.e., in the form of unstructured docume...

Sclerosis and increased matrix expression in diabetes are mediated by glucose-induced transforming growth factor (TGF)1 expression. The intracellular effects of high glucose occur at least in part by way of protein kinase C (PKC). We previously described a role for PKCin glucose-induced permeability. We now investigated the hypothesis that glucose-induced expression of TGF1 and its receptors (T...

About the author. . . . Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) intuitive and visceral rejection of the economics, politics, and science of European civilization in the 19th century led him to predict, “There will be wars such as there have never been on earth before.” His dominant aphoristic style of writing and his insistence of truth as convenient fiction, or irrefutable error, have puzzled philos...