Academics fume as university refuses to reject tobacco dollars

The ethics of the cash register: taking tobacco research dollars.

When Your Patient Refuses

Numerous malpractice lawsuits have been filed against health care providers by patients who claimed that, upon suffering a serious injury after refusing care, they did not fully understand the potential consequences of such refusal. In a typical situation, a patient alleges that the health care provider was negligent in not fully disclosing the risks of treatment refusal. Coupled with this alle...

From ERPs to academics

Standardized tests have been used to forecast scholastic success of school-age children, and have been related to intelligence, working memory, and inhibition using neuropsychological tests. However, ERP correlates of standardized achievement have not been reported. Thus, the relationship between academic achievement and the P3 component was assessed in a sample of 105 children during performan...

To protect or reject

A protein known for its role in dismantling faulty SNARE complexes can also help to maintain complexes that have formed properly during membrane fusion.

Screening for prostate cancer--the controversy that refuses to die.

n engl j med 360;13 nejm.org march 26, 2009 1351 with other professional organizations. This process should optimally lead to a multidisciplinary consensus statement involving providers such as obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, urologists, and family doctors and to the development and dissemination of educational materials for medical professionals and families. Male circumcision will rem...