Why New Sire Summaries are Needed

Exposure data. Why are they needed?

Aspects of different approaches to study design in the epidemiology of sports injuries are presented, identifying 4 major types: (i) the clinical case series; (ii) the community-based survey; (iii) studies on specific sports or diagnoses without exposure data; and (iv) studies on specific sports or diagnoses with exposure data. The advantages and disadvantages of these concepts are discussed. I...

Why a New Index Is Needed

Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories Are Often Uninterpretable

—Null hypothesis testing of correlational predictions from weak substantive theories in soft psychology is subject to the influence of ten obfuscating factors whose effects are usually (1) sizeable, (2) opposed, (3) variable, and (4) unknown The net epistemic effect of these ten obfuscating influences is that the usual research literature review is well nigh uninterpretable Major changes in gra...

Why bold policies for family planning are needed now.

Last spring at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) talk in Berlin, Melinda Gates used this phrase, “The most transformative thing you can do is to give people access to birth control.” She expressed similar sentiments at the London Summit on Family Planning on July 11, 2012, as did the British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Andrew Mitchell who was then Secretary of State for the Depart...

Why better prognostic factors for multiple myeloma are needed.

T HE DURATION of survival of patients with multiple myeloma ranges from a few months to many years (median, 2.5 to 3 years). This range is wide, and both the patient and the physician would like to have a more precise prediction of survival for the individual patient. Furthermore, it is reasonable to consider more aggressive and more toxic therapy for the patient with prognostic factors that in...