Upbeat oil report questioned

Asbestos findings questioned.

The relationship between autocrine interferon (IFN) production and the expression of class I Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) membrane glycoproteins in vitro was investigated in a panel of murine transformed cells of nonhaemopoietic origin. The panel included 11 cell lines of H-2Kb haplotype derived from fibrosarcomas, carcinomas and melanoma, and from transformed fibroblasts. IFN activit...

Primary position upbeat nystagmus in Wernicke's encephalopathy.

for morbid obesity. In the subsequent 4 months, he suffered from recurrent and intense vomiting, losing 40 kg. Asymptomatic hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia were discovered and supplemented. At this time, systematic oral vitamin therapy was begun. One month later, he started to describe blurred vision and vertical oscillopsia. Neurological examination revealed ataxia and nystagmus. Standard biolo...

Key Alzheimer's findings questioned.

When Stephen Strittmatter discovered an unexpected link between key proteins in two devastating brain maladies — Alzheimer’s disease and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) — researchers in the field agreed that he was on to something big. But a year on, conflicting results, including findings published in Nature this month, have clouded that rosy picture and highlight the challenge faced by resear...

Value of e-prescribing questioned.

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, October 4, 2011, 183(14) 1575 Decades after Canada’s 33 700 pharmacists began buying computers in the expectation that provincial health systems would connect them with physicians through electronic prescription networks, such information sharing may be inching toward becoming a reality. Although skeptics say the primary rationale for s...

Canada's approach to biosimilars questioned.