Authors defend study that shows high Iraqi death toll

A Culture that is Hard to Defend: Extralegal Factors in Federal Death Penalty Cases

Researchers defend influenza vaccine study

We all should question the magnitude of that benefit, but this does not imply that the elderly should not be vaccinated. There is a void of evidence from randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials in the elderly for influenza vaccines that are relicensed annually, confusion about the effectiveness of the vaccine and, consequently, substantial disagreement in the literature on the implied bu...

Increased Expression of Toll-Like Receptors 2 and 4 in Renal Transplant Recipients that Develop Allograft Dysfunction: A Cohort Study

Background: The incidence of ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI) in early phase post-transplantation and activation of toll-like receptor (TLR-2) and TLR-4 remarkably impact the outcome of a renal allograft. Objective: To investigate whether the expression of TLRs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) can predict the clinical outcome of kidney allografts. Methods: We obtained blood sample...

Hemispatial Neglect Shows That “Before” Is “Left”

Recent research has led to the hypothesis that events which unfold in time might be spatially represented in a left-to-right fashion, resembling writing direction. Here we studied fourteen right-hemisphere damaged patients, with or without neglect, a disorder of spatial awareness affecting contralesional (here left) space processing and representation. We reasoned that if the processing of time...

To Defend or Not To Defend: That’s the Question

Enterococcus faecalis is an opportunistic pathogen and is one of the leading causes of nosocomial infections. E. faecalis harbors a number of antibiotic resistance genes, and most of these are present on mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that can be disseminated within the species, as well as to other members of the human microflora. In an article by Price and colleagues [V. J. Price et al., mSphe...