Babies' cancer screens 'not needed'

Replication Is Not Needed

We establish the following, quite unexpected, result: replication of data for the computational Private Information Retrieval problem is not necessary. More speci cally, based on the quadratic residuosity assumption, we present a single database, computationally-private information-retrieval scheme with O(n ) communication complexity for any > 0.

Innovation: needed, but not rocket science.

Needed in MS: evidence, not EVIDENCE.

In an ideal world, clinicians would decide on the relative merits of treatments based on high-quality evidence from randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trials. The need for such evidence is particularly acute when there are several treatments available but no trials comparing efficacy. In this issue of Neurology, two randomized clinical trials report the relative benefits of different...

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

More staff training needed to promote breast feeding when babies leave neonatal care.

1253 Andrew Jack FiNaNcial TiMes UK doctors will be drawn into new efforts to boost cost effective prescribing in the next few months as part of a deal agreed this month between the government and industry. The newly revised pharmaceutical price regulation scheme (PPRS), designed to cut the overall NHS drug bill by about 5% in its five year life, will result in two initiatives to change current...