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The Osler Medical Journal: Topic Reviews

Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is a true medical emergency. It is a clinical syndrome characterized by the appearance of sudden marked impairment of liver cell function with hepatic encephalopathy, resulting from acute necrosis or dysfunction of a large portion of liver parenchyma. It is uncommon, but not rare. An estimated 2000 to 2500 deaths per year in the United States are due to FHF. Even...

REVIEWS

75 years of IFT: journal reviews and hypotheses.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) was founded in 1939, making 2014 the 75th Anniversary. The precursor to the Journal of Food Science, Food Research, started a bit earlier in 1936. In the build-up to the Annual Meeting and Food Expo in June of 2014, the Scientific Editors of all IFT scientific journals will be taking a look to the past and future to share their thoughts on how the scien...

Resources for evidence-based practice, July/August 2003 journal reviews.

This column highlights new resources that clarify knowledge about effects of specific practices in maternal/newborn and women's health. The focus is on new and recently updated systematic reviews and overviews of best research evidence. The column identifies recent additions to three major evidence-based databases: • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) uses a standardized method to r...