The article Procedures and recommended times in the care process of the patient with pancreatic cancer: PAN-TIME consensus between scientific societies, written by R. Vera, A. Ferrández, C. J. Ferrer, C. Flores, C. Joaquı́n, S. López, T. Martı́n, E. Martı́n, M. Marzo, A. Sarrión, E. Vaquero, A. Zapatero, J. Aparicio, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (curre...

U niversities in the United States and elsewhere hire new faculty based mainly on their research accomplishments and potential. Once hired, however, assistant professors succeed not only on their scientific skills but also on their ability to recruit and train lab personnel, motivate students to do their best work, obtain funding and handle budgets, and manage their own time. In effect, each of...

Journal policy on research data and code availability is an important part of the ongoing shift toward publishing reproducible computational science. This article extends the literature by studying journal data sharing policies by year (for both 2011 and 2012) for a referent set of 170 journals. We make a further contribution by evaluating code sharing policies, supplemental materials policies,...

This article gives an overview on the principles of reprocessing of rigid and flexible endoscopes used in ENT units including structural and spatial requirements based on general and ENT-specific risks of infection associated with diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. The underlying legal principles as well as recommendations from scientific societies will be exemplified in order to give a prac...

389 On 15 July 2012, we lost Professor Artur Czyżyk – an outstanding clinician and researcher, preceptor of many generations of physicians, one of the founders of Polish diabetology, and a member of numerous scientific societies. Professor Czyżyk was an exceptional physician – always devoted to his patients. He did his job with passion. He was an excellent diagnostician and educator – a teacher...

THERE is general agreement among historians about the pioneering phase in the history of blood transfusion. It is recognized that the first effective blood transfusions on animals were undertaken by Richard Lower, who demonstrated his experiment to distinguished scientists at Oxford in February 1666. Within the year the technical details were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the R...

UNLABELLED Data regarding knowledge acquisition during residency training are sparse. Predictors of theoretical learning quality, academic career achievements and evidence-based medical practice during residency are unknown. We performed a cross-sectional study on residents and attending physicians across several residency programs in 2 French faculties of medicine. We comprehensively evaluated...

OBJECTIVE To describe the development of a novel on-line database aimed to serve as a source of information concerning healthcare interventions appraised for their clinical value and appropriateness by several initiatives worldwide, and to present a retrospective analysis of the appraisals already included in the database. METHODS AND FINDINGS Database development and a retrospective analysis...

Science communication is an essential but often ignored aspect of scientific training. To this end, leading scientific societies and academic institutions have taken steps to ensure that undergraduate and graduate students are adequately trained to enable them to effectively communicate scientific findings to the public. For example, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an i...

Drugs used in oncology represent more than half of the innovative and costly drugs which are not covered by a Group Homogène de Soins (DRG type classification) within the context of the case-mix based payment system (termed T2A). For these drugs, good practice reference guidelines have been drawn up by scientific societies and registration agencies. Recognised indications, relevant indications ...