Renal denervation: back on track

Back on Track.

About 10 years ago the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) recognized the need for an applied informatics journal for the health sciences. In response to this need, the journal Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI) was launched in 2009 as a companion journal to Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM), both published by Schattauer (since January 1, 2017 part of Thieme), with the i...

Renal Denervation

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a group of metabolic diseases of multiple etiologies. Although great progress has been made, researchers are still working on the pathogenesis of T2DM and how to best use the treatments available. Aside from several novel pharmacological approaches, catheter-based sympathetic renal denervation (RDN) has gained a significant role in resistant hypertension, as w...

Back on track: Backtracking in counterfactual reasoning

Would Dan have died if Bob hadn’t shot? In this paper, we show that people’s answer depends on whether or not they are asked about what would have caused Bob not to shoot. Something needs to change in order to turn an actual world into a counterfactual world. Previous findings of how people reason about counterfactuals have been mixed: sometimes people appear to backtrack and reevaluate the cau...

Ebola vaccine trials back on track.

Efficacy trials of candidate Ebola vaccines will begin within a month, said WHO at a Jan 9 press conference. The announcement came after the second high-level meeting on Ebola vaccines access and financing, which was held in Geneva the previous day. Even though testing did not begin last month, as ambitiously announced at the first meeting, the prevailing mood was one of optimism. “One of the r...

Ruminations About Renal Denervation.