Issue Highlights-January 2013

January 2013

Highlights from the issue

Nuclear power plant accident As emergency clinicians we all have a duty to undertake regular chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) training in addition to major incident training. We do this training in the hope that we will never experience the reality of a CBRN incident like our colleagues in Japan. In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered a series of ...

Trento , 26 January 2013

Marcello Disertori ([email protected]) Maria Grazia Franzosi ([email protected]) Simona Barlera ([email protected]) Franco Cosmi ([email protected]) Silvia Quintarelli ([email protected]) Chiara Favero ([email protected]) Glauco Cappellini ([email protected]) Gianna Fabbri ([email protected]) Aldo Pietro Magg...

Highlights from the issue.

With this issue of Heart, both authors and readers will see several changes with the transition to the new editorial team. Heart is an international journal of cardiovascular medicine; the top 10 countries of origin for original research submissions are the UK, Italy, USA, Netherlands, China, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Spain and Australia, but with a sizable number of contributions from other...

Highlights from AASLD 2013.

Interim results of the C-WORTHY trial of the nonstructural (NS) 3/4A protease inhibitor MK-5172 and the NS5A replication complex inhibitor MK-8742 suggest that the combination exerts robust virologic suppression in treatment-naive patients with genotype (GT) 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Interim results of C-WORTHY, a phase 2b trial, were reported by Eric Lawitz, MD, of the University of...