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Comment
Sep 03, 2010
Health-systems strengthening: current and future activities
Jesper Sundewall, R Chad Swanson, Arvind Betigeri, David Sanders, Téa E Collins, George Shakarishvili, Ruairi Brugha
Comment
Sep 03, 2010
EMF directive still poses a risk to MRI research in Europe
Stephen F Keevil, Gabriel P Krestin
Articles
Sep 01, 2010
Double-dose versus standard-dose clopidogrel and high-dose versus low-dose aspirin in individuals undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndromes (CURRENT-OASIS 7): a randomised factorial trial
Shamir R Mehta, Jean-Francois Tanguay, John W Eikelboom, Sanjit S Jolly, Campbell D Joyner, Christopher B Granger, David P Faxon, Hans-Jurgen Rupprecht, Andrzej Budaj, Alvaro Avezum, Petr Widimsky, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Jean-Pierre Bassand, Gilles Montalescot, Carlos Macaya, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Kari Niemela, Andrew E Ajani, Harvey D White, Susan Chrolavicius, Peggy Gao, Keith AA Fox, Salim Yusuf
Comment
Sep 01, 2010
Acute coronary syndromes: finding meaning in OASIS 7
Gregg W Stone
Articles
Sep 01, 2010
Oral sucrose as an analgesic drug for procedural pain in newborn infants: a randomised controlled trial
Rebeccah Slater, Laura Cornelissen, Lorenzo Fabrizi, Debbie Patten, Jan Yoxen, Alan Worley, Stewart Boyd, Judith Meek, Maria Fitzgerald
Comment
Sep 01, 2010
Is sucrose an effective analgesic for newborn babies?
Robert E Lasky, Wim van Drongelen
Articles
Aug 29, 2010
Efficacy and safety of dabigatran compared with warfarin at different levels of international normalised ratio control for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: an analysis of the RE-LY trial
Lars Wallentin, Salim Yusuf, Michael D Ezekowitz, Marco Alings, Marcus Flather, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Prem Pais, Antonio Dans, John Eikelboom, Jonas Oldgren, Janice Pogue, Paul A Reilly, Sean Yang, Stuart J Connolly
Articles
Aug 29, 2010
Ivabradine and outcomes in chronic heart failure (SHIFT): a randomised placebo-controlled study
Karl Swedberg, Michel Komajda, Michael Böhm, Jeffrey S Borer, Ian Ford, Ariane Dubost-Brama, Guy Lerebours, Luigi Tavazzi
Articles
Aug 29, 2010
Heart rate as a risk factor in chronic heart failure (SHIFT): the association between heart rate and outcomes in a randomised placebo-controlled trial
Michael Böhm, Karl Swedberg, Michel Komajda, Jeffrey S Borer, Ian Ford, Ariane Dubost-Brama, Guy Lerebours, Luigi Tavazzi
Articles
Aug 29, 2010
Genetic variants in ABCB1 and CYP2C19 and cardiovascular outcomes after treatment with clopidogrel and prasugrel in the TRITON–TIMI 38 trial: a pharmacogenetic analysis
Jessica L Mega, Sandra L Close, Stephen D Wiviott, Lei Shen, Joseph R Walker, Tabassome Simon, Elliott M Antman, Eugene Braunwald, Marc S Sabatine
Articles
Aug 29, 2010
Effect of CYP2C19 and ABCB1 single nucleotide polymorphisms on outcomes of treatment with ticagrelor versus clopidogrel for acute coronary syndromes: a genetic substudy of the PLATO trial
Lars Wallentin, Stefan James, Robert F Storey, Martin Armstrong, Bryan J Barratt, Jay Horrow, Steen Husted, Hugo Katus, P Gabriel Steg, Svati H Shah, Richard C Becker
Comment
Aug 29, 2010
Quality of anticoagulation control in atrial fibrillation
Deirdre A Lane, Gregory YH Lip
Comment
Aug 29, 2010
Response to antiplatelet treatment: from genes to outcome
Betti Giusti, Rosanna Abbate
Comment
Aug 29, 2010
Ivabradine in heart failure—no paradigm SHIFT…yet
John R Teerlink
Comment
Aug 25, 2010
Health and philanthropy—the tobacco connection
Simon Chapman
Seminar
Aug 24, 2010
Lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis
Mark J Taylor, Achim Hoerauf, Moses Bockarie
Articles
Aug 24, 2010
Eltrombopag for management of chronic immune thrombocytopenia (RAISE): a 6-month, randomised, phase 3 study
Gregory Cheng, Mansoor N Saleh, Claus Marcher, Sandra Vasey, Bhabita Mayer, Manuel Aivado, Michael Arning, Nicole L Stone, James B Bussel
Comment
Aug 24, 2010
Sustaining platelet counts in chronic ITP
Alan T Nurden
Articles
Aug 23, 2010
Efficacy and safety of a recombinant hepatitis E vaccine in healthy adults: a large-scale, randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial
Feng-Cai Zhu, Jun Zhang, Xue-Feng Zhang, Cheng Zhou, Zhong-Ze Wang, Shou-Jie Huang, Hua Wang, Chang-Lin Yang, Han-Min Jiang, Jia-Ping Cai, Yi-Jun Wang, Xing Ai, Yue-Mei Hu, Quan Tang, Xin Yao, Qiang Yan, Yang-Ling Xian, Ting Wu, Yi-Min Li, Ji Miao, Mun-Hon Ng, James Wai-Kuo Shih, Ning-Shao Xia
Comment
Aug 23, 2010
Hepatitis E vaccine: not a moment too soon
Scott D Holmberg
Articles
Aug 19, 2010
Analysis of factors that affect outcome after transplantation of kidneys donated after cardiac death in the UK: a cohort study
Dominic M Summers, Rachel J Johnson, Joanne Allen, Susan V Fuggle, David Collett, Christopher J Watson, J Andrew Bradley
Comment
Aug 19, 2010
Kidneys donated after cardiac death are acceptable
Peter J Morris
New Drug Class
Aug 17, 2010
Gout therapeutics: new drugs for an old disease
Christopher M Burns, Robert L Wortmann
Health Policy
Aug 16, 2010
Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action
Paul Farmer, Julio Frenk, Felicia M Knaul, Lawrence N Shulman, George Alleyne, Lance Armstrong, Rifat Atun, Douglas Blayney, Lincoln Chen, Richard Feachem, Mary Gospodarowicz, Julie Gralow, Sanjay Gupta, Ana Langer, Julian Lob-Levyt, Claire Neal, Anthony Mbewu, Dina Mired, Peter Piot, K Srinath Reddy, Jeffrey D Sachs, Mahmoud Sarhan, John R Seffrin
Seminar
Aug 12, 2010
Primary ovarian insufficiency
Michel De Vos, Paul Devroey, Bart CJM Fauser
Articles
Aug 10, 2010
Vertebroplasty versus conservative treatment in acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (Vertos II): an open-label randomised trial
Caroline AH Klazen, Paul NM Lohle, Jolanda de Vries, Frits H Jansen, Alexander V Tielbeek, Marion C Blonk, Alexander Venmans, Willem Jan J van Rooij, Marinus C Schoemaker, Job R Juttmann, Tjoen H Lo, Harald JJ Verhaar, Yolanda van der Graaf, Kaspar J van Everdingen, Alex F Muller, Otto EH Elgersma, Dirk R Halkema, Hendrik Fransen, Xavier Janssens, Erik Buskens, Willem P Th M Mali
Comment
Aug 10, 2010
Another chapter for vertebral compression fractures
Douglas Wardlaw, Jan Van Meirhaeghe
Articles
Aug 05, 2010
The association between pregnancy weight gain and birthweight: a within-family comparison
David S Ludwig, Janet Currie
Comment
Aug 05, 2010
Gestational weight gain and birthweight
Neal Halfon, Michael C Lu
Comment
Aug 02, 2010
The case for a global rare-diseases registry
Christopher B Forrest, Ronald J Bartek, Yaffa Rubinstein, Stephen C Groft
Comment
Aug 02, 2010
Patients' safety for global health
Guang-Zhong Yang, Edward Kelley, Ara Darzi
Comment
Jul 29, 2010
Rural MBBS degree in India
Sanjay Kinra, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Comment
Jul 26, 2010
Children's environmental health—from knowledge to action
Tania Gavidia, Marie-Noel Brune, Kathleen M McCarty, Jenny Pronczuk, Ruth Etzel, Maria Neira, David O Carpenter, William A Suk, Robert G Arnold, Eun Hee Ha, Peter D Sly
Comment
Jul 23, 2010
Ram Janki Temple: understanding human stampedes
Frederick M Burkle, Edbert B Hsu
Comment
Jul 20, 2010
New trends in health inequalities research: now it's personal
Johan P Mackenbach
Comment
Jul 20, 2010
Mobilising the Americas for dietary salt reduction
Norm RC Campbell, Barbara Legowski, Branka Legetic
Comment
Jul 20, 2010
Resuscitation of newborn infants: from oxygen to room air
Ola Didrik Saugstad
Comment
Jul 13, 2010
Anecdotes in medicine—15 years of Lancet Case Reports
Seema Kang
Comment
Jul 13, 2010
The Havasu ‘Baaja tribe and informed consent
Arthur L Caplan, Jonathan D Moreno
Comment
Jul 13, 2010
An international registry of systematic-review protocols
Alison Booth, Mike Clarke, Davina Ghersi, David Moher, Mark Petticrew, Lesley Stewart
Health Policy
Jul 09, 2010
Measuring impact in the Millennium Development Goal era and beyond: a new approach to large-scale effectiveness evaluations
Cesar G Victora, Robert E Black, J Ties Boerma, Jennifer Bryce
Comment
Jul 05, 2010
AGREE II—improving the quality of clinical care
Amanda Burls
Articles
Jul 01, 2010
Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data
Luke M Funk, Thomas G Weiser, William R Berry, Stuart R Lipsitz, Alan F Merry, Angela C Enright, Iain H Wilson, Gerald Dziekan, Atul A Gawande
Comment
Jul 01, 2010
Global distribution of access to surgical services
Paul S Myles, Guy Haller
Comment
Jun 30, 2010
Huntington's disease out of the closet?
Michael Rawlins
Department of Error
Jun 09, 2010
Department of Error