Welber Marinovic, Aymar de Rugy, Ottmar V. Lipp, and James R. Tresilian School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia; School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia; Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine, CNRS UMR 5287, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Bordeaux, France; Scho...

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate the comments from Decker et al regarding our study [1]. There are now 3 studies reporting comparative effectiveness results for high-dose vs standard-dose influenza vaccine. Decker et al's Sanofi Pasteur ran-domized trial [2] necessarily focused on symptomatic influenza infection as hospitalization with complications of influenza is less common, and comparisons based...

TO THE EDITOR—We thank Walker et al for their interest in our work [1]. Our study found no evidence of difference in clinical severity of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) between patients infected with ribotype 027/078 strains compared with others, when adjusted for other co-variates [2]. Adjustment for factors on the hypothesized causal pathway between exposure (ribotype) and outcome (sev...

H eard et al (2015) generated cIap1 / Xiap / mice and were surprised to find them to be viable and fertile, because we had reported (Moulin et al, 2012) that cIap1 / Xiap / mice died by day E12.5 of embryogenesis (Moulin et al, 2012 Figs 1B and 2B and Supplementary Fig S1A). We are working with Heard et al (2015) in an attempt to determine why. It is, however, clear that failure of our cIap2cIa...

The authors agree with Myers et al. [1] that biodegradable materials represent a useful alternative in the management of tricuspid valve endocarditis repair. Our statement of dividing tricuspid valve repair choices in prosthetic and non-prosthetic techniques adequately sets the main cornerstones of surgical therapy: first, minimizing, as much as possible, the resulting valve regurgitation follo...

T he recent article in the November 2015 issue of the Journal by Whalen et al. 1 reported that 11% of their sample of 3-through 7-year-old children manifested some form of suicidal cognition or behavior (SI). Because this study represented the first systematic examination of suicidal cognitions and behaviors in very young children , the authors are to be commended. However, an apparent inconsis...

We welcome the correspondence from Fischer and colleagues regarding our recent paper on vocal learning in chimpanzee food grunts [1]. Fischer et al. make two challenges to our paper's conclusions, which we address here.

classification of small adenocarcinoma of the lung: radiologic-pathologic correlation and its prognostic impact. Ann Thorac Surg 2006;81:413–9. [5] Hattori A, Suzuki K, Matsunaga T, Fukui M, Kitamura Y, Miyasaka Y et al. Is limited resection appropriate for radiologically “solid” tumors in small lung cancers? Ann Thorac Surg 2012;94:212–5. [6] Gould MK, Fletcher J, Iannettoni MD, Lynch WR, Midt...

We would like to thank Green et al. [1] for contributing to the discussion regarding the validity of microfracture as a part of hip arthroscopy. Green et al. cited our previous publication, stating that patients with chondral defects do well without microfracture, concluding that the addition of microfracture is not justified based on the available data. We feel that their conclusion is, in par...