Letter: A bad week.

Why the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is bad for you: a letter to the EU

Page 1/44 Why the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is bad for you: a letter to the EU Vassilis Hatzopoulos

A Letter for Honoring Prof. Takeshi Matsuura

Reply to Letter: "A Randomized Study on 1-week Versus 4-week Prophylaxis for Venous Thromboembolism After Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer".

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy and safety of antithrombotic prophylaxis given for 1 week or 4 weeks in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer. BACKGROUND Extending antithrombotic prophylaxis beyond 1 week reduces the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) after open abdominal surgery for cancer. METHODS In consecutive patients who underwent laparoscopic surgery...

Bad Theory, Bad Practice: Bad Ethics

A profession that claims to understand economies, and that has gained power over the greater part of our societies, has big responsibilities. The fundamental responsibility is to ensure its perception of economies gives some useful guidance to the behaviour of real economies. Here mainstream economics fails utterly, and has been failing for a long time. Worse, it actively resists alternative vi...

Letter dyslexia in a letter-by-letter reader.

We describe a letter-by-letter patient who produced misreading errors in both letters in isolation and in words. All errors were visual in nature. We hypothesized an access deficit to the abstract visual representation of letters that prevents letter identification. This deficit could account for the patient's letter-by-letter behavior, since each letter constituted a potential identification p...