Leonidas Duntas, Stefanos Geroulanos, Peter Laurberg
The 2012 Educational Course of the European Thyroid Association (ETA) was a truly unique event. Held 24th-26th May on the island of Kos, in the healing environment of ‘the island of Hippocrates and Asclepius’, it combined an educational level of excellence with the commemoration of the centennial of the description of Hashimoto thyroiditis …
Theano D. Kontopoulou, Spyros G. Marketos
A century has passed (1902 – 2002) since the Danish botanist and geneticist Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen established the scientific term “gene”. The centenary of this biological term coincides with the 50th anniversary of the unraveling of the structure of DNA, the basic molecule of heredity …
Gregory Tsoucalas, Marianna Karamanou
Dear Editor, In congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (cNDI), polyuria and polydipsia are present from birth, as the kidney is unable to concentrate urine despite elevated concentrations of the antidiuretic hormone arginine-vasopressin. In ancient Greek medicine, physiology was, needless, to say, an as yet fairly undeveloped specialty among medico-philosophers …