The value of a fetal therapy relates to the balance between benefits and risks of the in-uterus intervention, contrasted with the natural history and prognosis of each pathological condition. Several studies have shown that any problem diagnosed prenatally, usually has a worse prognosis than when the diagnosis is made postnatally. This improvement of prognosis with time relates to the gestation...

Objective. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not there was a correlation between the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) value and the severity of idiopathic peripheral facial palsy (IPFP) and to determine whether or not NLR could be used as an early predictive parameter in the prognosis of IPFP patients. Material and Method. This retrospective study was conducted on 146 ...

Oral drugs stimulating endogenous insulin production (insulin secretagogues) may have detrimental effects on breast cancer outcomes. The data presented shows the relationship between pre-existing insulin secretagogues use, adipokine profiles at the time of breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and subsequent cancer outcomes in women diagnosed with BC and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The Pearson corr...

Doc, does this treatment work? It is a reasonable question, but statistics is a tricky business and one where clinicians should tread with care. So, how do you try to decide whether the results of a clinical trial show that a treatment works or not? Palesch has described some common P value pitfalls, so that decisions based on an arbitrary P value of <0.05, to test whether a trial result is sig...