How Do We Gather Knowledge Through Language?

How do we know? Evidence-based research and knowledge transfer.

How do we stand?

OBJECTIVE To equip medical practitioners with up-to-date scientific and medical information on the health effects of exposure to fungi in indoor air, clinical evaluation of these health problems, and possible preventive measures. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE MEDLINE was searched from 1985 to 2000 using the MeSH words mould (mold), fungus, indoor air, and health effects. Nearly all studies were case repo...

How do we know?

We know that every improvement is a change—but how do we know that a change is an improvement? Improvement experts and patients, each in their own terms, ask this question with appropriate impatience. 3 For example, how can valid conclusions be drawn when an improvement initiative employs no control population, or if the study employs predominantly qualitative measures? Indeed, some argue that ...

How do we feel?

Mammalian dorsal root ganglia (DRG) contain a diverse collection of sensory neuronal subtypes specialized to detect different sensory stimuli. Most of these cells respond to mechanical stimulation of some sort, be they proprioceptors detecting body movements, receptors for gentle touch or nociceptors activated by painful levels of pressure, and yet the proteins that detect mechanical stimuli re...

How do we know, what do we know and what can knowledge do? From John Brownlee to translational medicine.

At our recent annual associate editors meeting we discussed whether the IJE should follow most other general medical and leading epidemiology journals in releasing press releases to publicise particular papers. One associate editor (not a natural media tart or self-publicist) is enthusiastic about press releases, and thinks that the IJE may not be helping authors’ careers and their institutiona...