I read with interest the EHP supplement on oxygen radicals and lung injury (vol. 102, supplement 10). I would like to take this opportunity to comment about this supplement and raise a key issue concerning the major concepts regarding the mechanisms of cellular injury in inflammatory diseases. As an active investigator in this field of research, I cannot fully understand why there was no mentio...

CONTEXT The problems of doping in sport and the increasing use of nutritional supplements by athletes are issues that intersect to the degree that a large number of supplements may contain substances that are banned in sport. Many supplements contain substances that are associated with significant health hazards. Athletes consuming such supplement products may jeopardize their sporting status, ...

during pregnancy, the need of mother and fetus to iron gradually increases and will reach at its most level at the end of the pregnancy. this study was preformed to evaluate the knowledge and practice of pregnant women in fars province about supplements containing iron intake. data collection was a questionnaire completed by face to face interview using simple nonrandom sampling method in 2997 ...

The abundance of supplemental material in The Journal of Experimental Medicine is growing. In the May 2011 issue of JEM, all research papers have a supplement, with an average of 5.9 supplementary items per paper. Only 3 yr ago (May 2008 issue), 16% of JEM papers had no supplementary items, and the overall average was 4.6 items per paper. 3 yr before that (May 2005 issue), 57% of papers had no ...

Supplements are scholarly monographs on specific subjects that scientific journals usually publish quite regularly. They always appear as separate issues of the “mother journal” and each issue is independently financed. They are an ideal medium to disseminate the contents of symposia, provide a vehicle for continuing education or updates on specific topics, for the Societies’ Working Group or S...

Publication Information Jané-Llopis,E., Barry, M.M., Hosman, C. & Patel, V. (2005). Mental health promotion works: A review. In E. Jané-Llopis, M.M. Barry, C. Hosman and V. Patel (Eds.). The Evidence of Mental Health Promotion Effectiveness: Strategies for Action. IUHPE Special Issue, Supplement 2, 2005, 9-25. Publisher SAGE Journals Online Link to publisher's version http://ped.sagepub.com/con...

Since 1990 mortality and morbidity decline has been more extensive for some conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries than for others. One reason may be differences in the effectiveness of global health networks, which have proliferated in recent years. Some may be more capable than others in attracting attention to a condition, in generating funding, in developing interventions ...

This table was developed by the Technology Assessment Committee of the Society of Interventional Radiology as a supplement to “ImageGuided Tumor Ablation: Standardization of Terminology and Reporting Criteria,” a standards of practice document published in this issue (1). Common topics for reporting and details and descriptions requested are summarized in the following table. Specific definitio...