After the stillbirth of their son, journalists Jop de Vrieze and Zvezdana Vukojevic are in search of answers within the Dutch system of natal care. Gynecologist: ”Could we have saved him? Maybe, yes.” “Couldn’t you have called sooner?” Fifteen minutes earlier I stepped into our midwife practice, because I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt my unborn son moving in my belly. At first, I almost got sent home, both consultation rooms were occupied. “Just lie down
Lees verderA modern day do-over of a mid-20th century pupillometry experiment raises the question: What should we make of a failed replication? December 6, 2018 by Jop de Vrieze Anyone who enters the field of pupillometry — the study of pupil size — stumbles upon one classic research paper: “Pupil Size as Related to Interest Value of Visual Stimuli.” The study was published in Science in 1960 by psychologists Eckhard H. Hess and James M. Polt of the University of Chicago.
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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 as a result of a coincidental observation, but modern medicine also owes thanks to the microbiologist Selman Waksman, who subsequently helped develop a platform for studying the antimicrobial activity of various microbes by detecting zones of growth inhibition of susceptible microorganisms on Petri dishes. Waksman and his team used the approach to isolate some 20 new antibiotics from soil microbes, including streptomycin, the first to work against tuberculosis. This method was successfully applied by
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