Correspondence: Eurosurveillance editorial team ([email protected]) Citation style for this article: Eurosurveillance editorial team. ECDC launches public consultation on rotavirus vaccination in infancy. On 17 October, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) launched a public consultation on the preliminary scientific advice document 'Expert opinion on rotav...

So often we hear the legal profession berate expert witnesses as "hired guns" whose bias is for sale. While this may be relevant to a small minority of "experts", the majority do their job with integrity and in an ethical fashion. An advocate for a proposition will not call a witness to support a claim if it is clear that the witness holds an opposing view. It follows that the bias emanates fro...

In this paper, we propose the use of finegrained information such as opinions and suggestions extracted from users’ reviews about products, in order to improve a recommendation system. While typical recommender systems compare a user profile with some reference characteristics to rate unseen items, they rarely make use of the content of reviews users have done on a given product. In this paper,...

Recent work on testimony and the norms of assertion considers cases of expert testimony. Thinking about expert testimony clarifies which epistemic goods figure in the expectations placed on experts for their knowledge. Examining the distinctive conditions of expert testimony and the assumptions hearers bring to such conversational contexts can provide broader lessons about how knowledge is repr...

People often use expert advice when making decisions in our society, but how we are influenced by this advice has yet to be understood. To address this, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we provided expert and novice advice to participants during an estimation task. Participants reported that they valued expert advice more than novice advice, and activity in the ventral striatum corr...

There is concern and growing evidence that the supply of medical oncologists in the United States will be insufficient to meet the needs of future patients. With an aging population and increasing complexity of cancer therapies, it is clear there will be more patients and that they will live longer and require expert care. It is equally clear that the number of specialists trained in cancer med...

CLINICAL HISTORY A 37-year-old woman presented for evaluation of frequent headache. One year previously, she had a sudden severe pain (“like an axe”) in the back of the head, with maximum intensity at the onset and representing the worst headache of her life. Computed tomography of the brain and cerebrospinal fluid examination were normal. She subsequently experienced frequent headaches. She de...