Purpose. In low-income countries, prolactinomas are difficult to manage with dopamine agonists (DA). We compared the effectiveness of DA in microprolactinomas as a first line treatment and as adjuvant therapy for residual macroprolactinomas treated surgically. Methods. Our retrospective study analyzed 78 patients, 38 with microprolactinomas and 40 with macroprolactinomas. Microprolactinomas wer...

This paper investigates the monetary interdependence and the money-income relationship between countries under a pegged and a floating exchange rate system during the same time period (1979-1997). The relationship is tested between three ERM countries, France, Germany and Holland, and also between these countries and the United States. The ERM countries have a pegged exchange rate between thems...

Public finance experts have long explored the issue of income taxes making the cost of market transactions higher than nonmarket ones. A 50 percent income tax, for example, requires $20,000 in income to purchase $10,000 of market goods. The tax can be avoided, however, if the same goods can be produced at home. The upshot is that income taxes encourage the home production of goods and services ...

The paper by Lynch et al is intended to cast doubt on the importance to health of social capital, relative income and psychosocial pathways, and to gain support for a view of the continued importance of absolute income and of “neomaterial” factors. Before answering specific points I should draw attention to two new studies that support the importance of relative income over absolute income in r...

The paper by Lynch et al is intended to cast doubt on the importance to health of social capital, relative income and psychosocial pathways, and to gain support for a view of the continued importance of absolute income and of “neomaterial” factors. Before answering specific points I should draw attention to two new studies that support the importance of relative income over absolute income in r...

BACKGROUND Adolescent girls aged 15-19 bear a disproportionate burden of negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Research from several high-income countries suggests that early age at menarche is an important determinant of sexual and reproductive health. We conducted this systematic review to better understand whether and how early menarche is asso...

University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Kenneth A. Fleming, MD, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, 43 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HG, United Kingdom; e-mail: kenneth.fleming@ medsci.ox.ac.uk. The burden of cancer is on the rise. More than 7 million people per year die as a result of cancer, and it is responsible for more deaths worldwide than AIDS, malaria, ...

The HIV epidemic in higher-income nations is driven by receptive anal intercourse, injection drug use through needle/syringe sharing, and, less efficiently, vaginal intercourse. Alcohol and noninjecting drug use increase sexual HIV vulnerability. Appropriate diagnostic screening has nearly eliminated blood/blood product-related transmissions and, with antiretroviral therapy, has reduced mother-...

In this editorial by Lisa Keay and David S Friedman (BMJ 2011;343:d4793, doi:10.1136/bmj.d4793) the authors mixed up their workplace affiliations. The workplace affiliation for Lisa Keay should have been the one given for David S Friedman, and vice versa.