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Françoise Salager - Meyer * , María Ángeles Alcaraz Ariza

In this paper we carried out a diachronic analysis (1840-2009) of a corpus of 180 medical case report titles drawn from the British Medical Journal. We analyzed a series of quantitative variables (number of authors and their institutional affiliation, title length, and punctuation/ grammatical data) and qualitative variables (authors’ collaboration and types of titles). The results of our resea...

A Tribute to José María (“Chema”) Cantú

José María ("Chema") Cantú (1938-2007), born in Mexico, was a pioneering, loved and respected leader in medical and human genetics and bioethics in Latin America. He graduated as a physician in Mexico and then trained in medical and human genetics in France and the United States. He was instrumental in developing a first-rate research, training and genetic services program in medical and human ...

María Pinto and Carmen Gálvez Paradigms for abstracting systems

The ever-growing amount of documents (electronic or other) has increased the value of abstracts, and abstracting systems and services, as instruments for concentrating and supplying relevant information. Ongoing research in different disciplines, with abstracting as the common subject matter, points to the usefulness of the paradigm concept. This perspective would provide the coherence necessar...

1 . Colorectal cancer epidemiology . Assessing and managing risk . Prevention María

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an important public health problem: there are nearly one million new cases of CRC diagnosed world-wide each year and half a million deaths. Recent reports show that it is one of the most frequent form of cancer among people aged 75 years and older. Given that the majority of cancers occur in elderly people and with the ageing of the population in mind, this observatio...