Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
the World Health Organization (WHO) published a policy recommendation against the use of currently available commercial blood (serological) antibody-detection tests to diagnose active tuberculosis (TB). While serological tests work well…
various factors including the sample size (or number of “subjects” in fMRI), how strong the real effect is (“effect size”), whether comparisons are within or between subjects, and the statistical…
recommendation are absolutely central in the process of scholarly evaluation and tenure at promotion time…. These letters of recommendation are another part of scholarly communication. We don’t think of them…
Despite the new recommendation, John Horgan remains strongly against screening at Cross-Check. He says, “Just to be clear: you are 240-120 times more likely to misdiagnosed as a result of…
spend most of their time flopping around on muddy shores in warm parts of Asia and Africa. They engage in what’s called “crutching” locomotion: using both front fins simultaneously to…
recommendations within the new guidelines (Figure 1). The low adherence rate to the overall guidelines was largely driven by a small number of toddlers meeting the screen time recommendation. Specifically,…
colds due to viruses. Today’s AP article addresses a recommendation by the German Federal Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) that doctors there consider the use of placebos even when patients are not…
online activity to collect fine-grained data, including viewership, discussion, saving, and recommendation along with traditional citation. This allows researchers, funders, institutions and policy makers to create a higher resolution picture…
various journals. It is meant to be flexible to adapt to various journal policies, and provides two levels of reporting stringency, a minimum recommendation and a best practice recommendation. The…
response to the Finch Report, and Higher Education Funding Council for England – HEFCE–established a framework for introducing Open Access to the UK over a short period of time with…
