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Special Contribution

Special Contribution: Current Practice

The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology Recommendations for Pancreatic and Biliary Cytology Douglas Adler, M.D., C. Max Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.S., Mohammad Al-Haddad, M.D., James S. Barthel, M.D., Britt-Marie Ljung, M.D., Nipun B. Merchant, M.D., Joseph Romagnuolo, M.D., Akram M. Shaaban, M.D., Diane Simeone, M.D., Martha Bishop Pitman, M.D., Andrew Field, M.D. and Lester J. Layf...

Special contribution MTBE: recent carcinogenicity studies

MTBE, a gasoline oxygenate, has contaminated drinking water sources for many years. Carcinogenicity studies conducted in animals in the 1990s raised concerns of potential human health risks. Recent industrysponsored studies have confirmed the carcinogenic effects of this agent and have identified additional sites of tumor induction (i.e., brain). However, the petroleum industry has attempted to...

Special Contribution: Third Molar Clinical Trials Annotated Bibliography.

PURPOSE To provide clinicians with an annotated bibliography of published articles from research funded externally by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, spanning 1996 to 2015, addressing the topic of third molar management. MATERIALS AND METHODS A brief summary for each article was generated by the respective authors. RESULTS The complete annotated bibliography generated by the ...

Responsive evaluation: Its meaning and special contribution to health promotion

Responsive evaluation offers a vision and rationale for evaluation. In this vision, evaluation is reframed from the assessment of program interventions on the basis of policymakers’ goals to an engagement with all stakeholders about the effectiveness of their practice. This approach is especially appropriate for the field of health promotion given emerging ideas and the congruency between the u...