Data with unexpected values should be checked

Should Aortic Valve Calcification be Checked Before Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?

Whether all patients with Central precocious puberty should be treated?

Extended Abstract   Precocious puberty is the appearance of secondary sexual characteristics before 8 years old in girls and 9 years old in boys. Precocious puberty is divided into 3 groups of central, peripheral and normal variants. Central precocious puberty is accompanied by activation of hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis which causes increase in secretion of GnRH, and in turn increase i...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Effect sizes and p values: what should be reported and what should be replicated?

Despite publication of many well-argued critiques of null hypothesis testing (NHT), behavioral science researchers continue to rely heavily on this set of practices. Although we agree with most critics' catalogs of NHT's flaws, this article also takes the unusual stance of identifying virtues that may explain why NHT continues to be so extensively used. These virtues include providing results i...

When should tests for unexpected antibodies be done during pregnancy?

B oth the AABB’s Guidelines for Prenatal and Perinatal Immunohematology and the practice bulletin of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) on “Management of Alloimmunization during Pregnancy” advocate testing pregnant women for unexpected antibodies to red blood cell (RBC) antigens at the first-trimester visit. This testing serves to detect those alloantibodies capable ...