Mucosal healing (MH) has emerged as an important treatment goal for patients with IBD. Historically, the therapeutic goals of induction and maintenance of clinical remission seemed insufficient to change the natural history of IBD. Evidence has now accumulated to show that MH can alter the course of IBD, as it is associated with sustained clinical [...]
Gastric cancer is a highly virulent neoplasm with high morbidity and mortality. Although the benefit of radiation therapy (RT) combined with chemotherapy in gastric cancer has been established, challenges remain in providing accurate and safe radiation delivery. Improved understanding of patterns of gastric cancer relapse and tumor spread, and of organ motion in the abdomen, [...]
This old lady walks into the Doctor’s office and says, “Doctor, please help me. I have a terrible problem with farting. It’s not really a social problem, because you can’t smell it or hear it, but I must have farted 20 times since talking to you.” The Doctor nods his head and says, “Take this bottle [...]
Within the United States, Congress is similarly fighting over legislation on climate change. The House in the summer of 2009 passed a bill outlining a cap-and-trade system that could, over the next few decades, lead to an early end to conventional use of coal and oil, fuels that have underpinned prosperity and growth for more [...]
Dendritic cells (DCs), originally identified by Steinman and his colleagues (1972) represent the pacemakers of the immune response. They are crucial to the presentation of peptides and proteins to T and B lymphocytes and are widely recognized as the key antigen presenting cells (APCs). They are critical for the induction of T cell responses resulting in [...]
