Caution is needed when assessing results of home birth

Caution is Needed in Designing Pharmacy Coverage

P harmaceuticals are a critical component of modern medical care and have contributed substantially to health and quality of life. They are also expensive, accounting for 10% of US health care costs. By the end of this year, Medicare beneficiaries are expected to spend $343 billion on medications, and drug spending is projected to grow faster than both the inpatient and outpatient care categori...

Going Solar is Good but Caution Needed!

Why not treat the mother-infant dyad, rather than infant alone, as achieving vitamin D sufficiency is equally important for the mothers. Compliance with daily oral vitamin D supplementation of infants is documented to be very poor even in the West [4,5]. Exposing infants to sunlight may be a more difficult proposition than medicinal supplements. While the natural way of augmenting the vitamin D...

Caution needed when linking weather extremes to amplified planetary waves.

The Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes have experienced frequent summer weather extremes in the last decade (1-2). In a recent PNAS paper, Petoukhov et al. (3) propose a single physical mechanism that could help explain the occurrence of these weather extremes. They suggest that such extremes are associated with well-developed synoptic-scale planetary waves, in particular large amplitude quasi-s...

Operational models of allosteric modulation: caution is needed.

Why prudence is needed when interpreting articles reporting clinical trial results in mental health

BACKGROUND Clinical trial results' reliability is impacted by reporting bias. This is primarily manifested as publication bias and outcome reporting bias. MENTAL HEALTH TRIALS' SPECIFIC FEATURES Mental health trials are prone to two methodological deficiencies: (1) using small numbers of participants that facilitates false positive findings and exaggerated size effects, and (2) the obligatory...