This paper introduces NETSPEAK, a Web service which assists writers in finding adequate expressions. To provide statistically relevant suggestions, the service indexes more than 1.8 billion n-grams, n ≤ 5, along with their occurrence frequencies on the Web. If in doubt about a wording, a user can specify a query that has wildcards inserted at those positions where she feels uncertain. Queries d...

This standard work on treatment needs no recommendation; it is already in the possession of most physicians, and it is only necessary to say that it has been thoroughly revised to bring it abreast of modern usage. Several new articles appear on encephalitis, kala-azar, snakebite, transfusion and other subjects. No less than a (hundred authors contribute to the book, so it is evident that each s...

If you have browsed the American Cancer Society or National Cancer Institute’s web sites, or read some of the other articles written by the CAP Medical Writers, you will note the high incidence rate for lung cancer. Roughly 219,440 people were expected to be diagnosed in 2009 alone [1, 2]. This number exceeds that of breast (192,370), prostate (192,280) and colon & rectum cancers (146,970). An ...