No Reason to Celebrate?

Antihypertensive prescribing: do we have reason to celebrate?

The blood pressure (BP) goal for Healthy People 2000 was to achieve BP control in 50% of the population with hypertension. Unfortunately, BP was only controlled in 31% in 2000.1 When the goal was not achieved in 2000, the same goal of 50% was established in Healthy People 2010.2 There is slightly 3 years to achieve Health People 2010. Do we have reason to be concerned with achieving this rather...

The elderly patient: no reason to worry!?

In December 2013, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has placed Switzerland for the first time at the top of the list of countries’ general population life ex- pectancy. The augmenting life expectancy and demographic changes are leading to an increase in the number of older people who are dependent on care (Höpflinger & Hugentobler 2003, Höpflinger et al. 2011). M...

Levalbuterol toxicity: no reason to be jittery.

When No Reason For Is A Reason Against

We provide a Bayesian justification of the idea that, under certain conditions, the absence of an argument in favour of the truth of a hypothesis H constitutes a good argument against the truth of H.

20 years and no wrinkles--a reason to be proud.

a Institut für Transkulturelle Gesundheitswissenschaften, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/O., b Institut für Sozialmedizin, Epidemiologie und Gesundheitsökonomie, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, c Fakultät für Gesundheit (Department für Humanmedizin), Universität Witten/Herdecke, d Zentrum für naturheilkundliche Forschung der II. Medizinischen Klinik und Poliklinik, Technische Univer...