Overdose resurgence amid pandemic fuels debate over treatment access measures

Who should get the HPV vaccine? Usage expands amid debate.

F ull-page advertisements inviting parents to immunize their preadolescent boys against human papillomavirus (HPV) have rekindled the debate over who should receive the world’s first cancer vaccine. In the ads for Merck’s Gardasil vaccine ( Parade magazine, April 25, 2010), two cherubic faces — one of a mischievous-looking boy in need of a haircut, the other of a tomboyish girl with braces on h...

The Debate Over Teledemocracy

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...

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...

Debate percolates over CAFE standards.

vaccines may cause an immunosuppression with lymphopaenia, impaired cytokine production and defective lymphocyte response to mitogenes. These abnormalities were described in subjects vaccinated against measles. This study was performed to analyse the host immune response related to immunosuppression in subjects vaccinated with live attenuated rubella vaccine. Methods: Eighteen schoolgirls, aged...