Nanocomposites, excellent properties or hype?

Pharmacogenomics: Hope or Hype?

Much has been made of the potential for personalnot altruistic companies. Incyte Inc. alone holds US ised medicine, where a genomic screen of a patient patents on more than 350 genes and has an estimated could determine which drugs will work and be free of 6,500 applications pending with 10 more applied for side effects in an individual. Much of the hope based each week [3]. They hope to make p...

Hype or hypervirulence

Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) have emerged as a major cause of healthcare associated disease, and recent epidemiological evidence also suggests an important role in community-acquired diarrhea. This increase is associated with specific types, especially PCR ribotypes 027 and 078, which are sometimes referred to as "hypervirulent". Over the past years major advances have been made in ou...

Propensity scores: help or hype?

In this issue of Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Kazmi et al. report an evaluation of the association between late nephrologist referral and mortality in a cohort of incident renal replacement therapy (RRT) patients [1]. After multivariable adjustment, they found that patients who reported having first been seen by a nephrologist <4 months prior to RRT had a nearly 50% higher risk of 1 yea...

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Instability Training — Help or Hype ?

Activities of daily living and sport performance present a multitude of situations in which an individual must exert force while in unstable and potentially compromised positions. Thus, it has been suggested that due to the concept of training specificity, one should mimic an unstable condition to elicit adaptations that would allow the individual to excel when placed in such a situation (3). A...