A step forward for Brazilian pediatric research

A step forward for Brazilian pediatric research.

doi:10.2223/JPED.1451 Brazilian pediatric research appears to be healthy, or at least its ability to get published is improving. Two optimistic reports by Blank et al. contrast with the pessimism expressed in my home country of the United Kingdom. Last year Jornal de Pediatria reported that SciELO indexing had led to an increase in local submissions to the journal while MEDLINE indexing had res...

One step forward

A step forward for data protection and biomedical research.

1374 www.thelancet.com Vol 387 April 2, 2016 be “the difference in home systolic blood pressure between each active drug (spironolactone, doxazosin, bisoprolol) and placebo”. The function and obligation of the SAP was to specify how the primary hypothesis would be addressed, using the prespecified primary outcome measures, capturing the maximum amount of information that has been discovered by ...

A step forward in research on psychotherapy of schizophrenia.

The Boston group have devoted 10 years to a thoughtful, comprehensive, and much needed study that will undoubtedly become a classic reference in the field. If the emphasis is placed on differences that reached statistical significance, the major finding is minimal outcome differences between exploratory, insight-oriented (EIO) and reality-adaptive, supportive (RAS) therapies with, if anything, ...

SKUP3: a major step forward in sleep surgery research.

Positive airway pressure is recognised as the first-line treatment for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in many countries because of its low risks and high efficacy. Unfortunately, between 30% and 40% of OSA patients cannot tolerate positive airway pressure 2 and may consider other options, including surgery. The most common surgical treatment is isolated palate surgery (often ...