This generation of physicians is being confronted daily with many extraordinary and baffling medical problems. For some of these, the causes are unknown and, for others, present-day knowledge is insufficient to permit precise diagnoses, so poorly defined are their symptoms. On the other hand, our era has witnessed some impressive scientific developments in respect of many diseases and notable therapeutic goals have been attained. New drugs, new therapies involving physical agents, new surgical procedures and new diagnostic tests are based upon better knowledge of biochemical anomalies and immunological disturbances have been introduced and have achieved widespread acceptance.
This website includes links to summaries of some notable developments in various fields of medical science. Practical aspects of diagnostic methods and treatment procedures have been stressed wherever possible in the hope that the information might prove of special usefulness to practicing physicians. But the website is not primarily written for physicians, and has no ambition of providing reliable knowledge to medical scientists. Examples should be viewed merely as anecdotal and read as inspiration for people who are interested in promoting new medical ideas. As such, they might evoke some new fascinating possibilities that naturally will need more rigorous scientific research to be verified.