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Background. Pollen immunotherapy is effective in selected patients with IgE-mediated seasonal allergic rhinitis, although it is questionable whether there is long-term benefit after the discontinuation of treatment. Methods. We conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the discontinuation of immunotherapy for grass pollen allergy in patients in whom three to four years o...

After incidental exposure to Blacks who succeeded in counterstereotypical domains (e.g., Brown University President Ruth Simmons, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison), participants drew an automatic inference that race was not a success-inhibiting factor in modern society. Of note, participants' automatic inferences were not simply guided by their explicit reasoning (i.e., their beliefs about what the...

Constitutional patriotism, as is fairly well known, emerged from debates about national identity in a divided country facing an extremely difficult past: post-war West Germany. It had initially been advanced in the late 1970s and early 1980s by the political theorist Dolf Sternberger, who had been heavily influenced by Hannah Arendt and who conceived constitutional patriotism as a republican, s...

Introduction Human albumin is used for volume expansion and resuscitation and to correct hypoalbuminemia [1]. Hypoalbuminemia is frequent in sepsis and is a strong predictor of mortality and morbidity [2]. Fluid volume expansion and resuscitation of the critically ill with albumin has been recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Surviving Sepsis Campaign ...