Redwoods: A Population Model Debunked

Vaccines: SA's immunization programme debunked.

Infective endocarditis: some popular tenets debunked?

Infective endocarditis remains an uncommon disease thus any individual doctor's experience of it must of necessity be limited. Such patients are always "interesting" and invariably stay in hospital for weeks rather than days-this, I think, leads clinicians to assume the infection is more common than it really is. As a (clinical) microbiologist I have been in a unique position to follow all pati...

Ten myths about the Stark statute debunked.

The Stark statute was enacted in 1995, but final regulations were not published until January 2001 and even then did not address all the Stark exceptions. Many people are confused about how to apply the exceptions and what the Stark statute means. This article identifies 10 of the most common myths about Stark and explains and corrects the misconceptions.

REV I EWS Four Nephrology Myths Debunked

There are many controversial topics relating to renal disease in hospitalized patients. The aim of this review is to shed light on some important and often debated issues. Hypothyroidism, unlike myxedema, is not a cause of hyponatremia (although it can be sometimes seen in conjunction with the latter) and additional investigations should be done to determine its etiology. Sodium bicarbonate is ...

Contrasting drought-response strategies in California redwoods.

We compared the physiology and growth of seedlings originating from different Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don.) Endl. (coast redwood) and Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchh. (giant sequoia) populations subjected to progressive drought followed by a recovery period in a controlled greenhouse experiment. Our objective was to examine how multiple plant traits interact to influence the response o...