OJS ante portas!

The vaptans ante portas: a status report.

On 25 June 2008 the US Food and Drug Administration held a public Advisory Committee Meeting of its Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Division on Tolvaptan (NDA 22-275), the first oral vasopressin antagonist to apply for licensing (http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/cder08.html# CardiovascularRenal). Based on the comments made, we may now expect that tolvaptan will make it to the pharmacies soon....

Cholera ante portas – The re-emergence of cholera in Kinshasa after a ten-year hiatus

BACKGROUND Cholera is an endemic disease in certain well-defined areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The west of the country, including the mega-city Kinshasa, has been free of cases since mid 2001 when the last outbreak ended. METHODS AND FINDINGS We used routinely collected passive surveillance data to construct epidemic curves of the cholera cases and map the spati...

[Ebola ad portas].

En el año 211 aC, el ejército cartaginés de Anı́bal acampó en el rı́o Anio, a 5 km de las murallas de Roma. El imperio romano sintió la amenaza africana realmente próxima por primera vez en su historia. La situación causó gran pánico entre la población y dio origen a la expresión Anı́bal ad portas: Anı́bal (el peligro) está a las puertas de la ciudad. Este año 2014, una nueva epidemia de enfermedad...

Synergies, OJS, and the Ontario Scholars Portal

This paper introduces the CFI-funded project Synergies: The Canadian Information Network for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, and two of its regional components. This four-year project is a national distributed platform with a wide range of tools to support the creation, distribution, access and archiving of digital objects such as journal articles. It will enable the distributio...

Upping the Ante