Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease, are responsible for seven out of every 10 deaths worldwide.While NCDs are associated with aging in high-income countries, this representation is often misleading.Over one-third of the 41 million annual deaths from NCDs occur prematurely, defin
Tricuspid valve dysplasia: A retrospective study of clinical features and outcome in dogs in the UK
The objective of this study was to determine the demographic, clinical and survival characteristics and to identify risk factors for mortality due to tricuspid valve dysplasia in UK dogs.Records of client-owned dogs diagnosed with tricuspid valve dysplasia at a referral centre were retrospectively reviewed.Only dogs diagnosed with tricuspid valve d
Drug discovery by a basic research scientist
I was fortunate to do my military service during the Vietnam era as a medical officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.My first research at NIH was acrylic beads concerned with making a variety of optical measurements on nucleic acid bases and proteins, including single crystal spectra in linearly polarized light and