Commentary: To wrap or not to wrap—Have we now come full circle?

Emergency contraception: have we come full circle?

Two decades ago, Dr. Felicia Stewart, then serving as Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Sacramento, CA, began her campaign to let out of the closet “America's best-kept secret” — emergency contraception (EC) [1]. The method had been suppressed because many providers thought the method was “not effective enough” or would lead women to use it “too much” (in place of using ot...

Aid and growth : Have we come full circle ?

The micro-macro paradox has been revived. Despite broadly positive evaluations at the micro and meso-levels, recent literature has turned decidedly pessimistic with respect to the ability of foreign aid to foster economic growth. Policy implications, such as the complete cessation of aid to Africa, are being drawn on the basis of fragile evidence. This paper first assesses the aid-growth litera...

Linear ablation for atrial fibrillation: have we come full circle?.

The evolution of effective and broadly applicable strategies for percutaneous ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) has followed a complex course over the past decade. In 1994, Swartz et al. (1) reported successful percutaneous ablation of AF with multiple long linear lesions. Conceived as a replication of the surgical MAZE, the procedure deployed specifically tailored long sheaths to facilitate...

Commentary To Pool , or Not to Pool ?

IN this issue of Genetics, Futschik and Schlötterer (2010) present one of the first and the most systematic explorations of the relative merits of pooling vs. individual sequencing for several genetics applications. They argue that pooling individuals is often more effective both for SNP discovery and for the estimation of allele frequencies (and thus for population genomic analyses) and as a r...

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?