Myopia: is the nature‐nurture debate finally over?

Carotid artery disease: is the debate over?

Editorial Carotid artery disease: is the debate over? There have been few issues in cardiovascular medicine that have been of more concern and contention than the role of carotid artery surgery for the prevention of stroke. Interestingly , the first randomized trial concerning this operation was reported in 1970 and showed that patients who underwent an operation had a lower stroke rate in the ...

carotid artery stenting, endarterectomy, or medical treatment alone: the debate is not over

the management of carotid artery stenosis reduces the risk of stroke and its related deaths.   management options include risk factor modification and medical therapy, carotid endarterectomy (cea), and carotid artery stenting (cas). although several randomized controlled trials (rcts), mostly conducted in late-1980s and mid-1990s, have proved cea to be effective in the prevention of ipsilateral...

The Debate Over Teledemocracy

Finally, it is Bismuth's Time

In an interesting Turkish retrospective study, conducted between 2012 and 2015, involving 1510 adults, Kekilli et al.[1] tested triple therapy (lansoprazole 30 mg b.i.d., clarithromycin 500 mg b.i.d., and amoxicillin 1 g b.i.d.), bismuth group C (lansoprazole, clarithromycin, amoxicillin, and bismuth subsalicylate 524 mg b.i.d.), and bismuth group M (lansoprazole, amoxicillin, metronidazole 500...

Alzheimer's debate boils over.

William T. Golden Treasurer Richard S. Nicholson Executive Officer John Abelson Frederick Alt Don L. Anderson Stephen J. Benkovic Gunter K-J Blobel Floyd E. Bloom Henry R. Boume James J. Bull Kathryn Calame Charles R. Cantor Ralph J. Cicerone John M. Coffin Robert Dorfman Bruce F. Eldridge Paul T. Englund Federic S. Fay Harry A. Fozzard Theodore H. Gaballe Roger 1. M. Glass Stephen J. Goff Core...