Providing Safe Water: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations

From Patna to Paris: Providing Safe and Humane Abortion

Commentary: Challenges in providing psychiatric disability evaluations.

Christopher et al., in their study of differences between general psychiatrists and forensic psychiatrists in the evaluation of psychiatric disability relative to Social Security Disability Insurance claims, have provided useful information regarding statistically significant differences in practice and beliefs. Despite the relatively small number of participants in this unique survey study, th...

The Novelty Paradox & Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations

Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical research university, in which we re...

Providing cardiovascular benefits with safe diabetes therapy

is probably the most prevalent risk factor in cardiac ICU patients [11]. This led to more intensive treatment regimens aiming to approach nearnormal glycemia. As mentioned above, these studies failed to demonstrate CVD prevention, and in one case even found a harmful effect [2–4]. Interestingly, similar findings were found in nondiabetic hyperglycemic patients in the setting of ICUs. Hyperglyce...

Genetic Structure of Water Chestnut Beetle: Providing Evidence for Origin of Water Chestnut

Water chestnut beetle (Galerucella birmanica Jacoby) is a pest of the water chestnut (Trapa natans L.). To analyze the phylogeny and biogeography of the beetle and provide evidence for the origin of T. natans in China, we conducted this by using three mitochondrial genes (COI, COII and Cytb) and nuclear ITS2 ribosomal DNA of G. birmanica. As for mtDNA genes, the beetle could be subdivided into ...