Concept of difficult situations: step forward or step back?

One step forward

Religiosity and telomere length: One step forward, one step back.

a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Program on Integrative Knowledge and Human Flourishing, Harvard University, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, and Health, United States b Harvard Medical School, Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, National Consortium on Psychosocial Stress, Spirituality, ...

The Next Step Forward Is to Take a Step Back.

Understanding the causes of diabetes is at the heart of most diabetes research. The field of causal inference has made dramatic advances in methodology that allows for causal inference from observational and not experimental data (1). One such methodological advancement is the use of genetic markers as instrumental variables, or so-called Mendelian randomization (MR) (2). MR relies on the laws ...

One step back but 2 steps forward.

There have been major advances reported over the past decade in previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with chemo-immunotherapy approaches now the treatment of choice.2 A decade ago, chlorambucil was the treatment of choice. However, CLL is a disease of the elderly with a median age at diagnosis of 72 years, and almost 70% of CLL patients are older than 65 years at the time of ...

Two steps forward, one step back.

Participants at a community health information network in Glens Falls, N.Y., have come face-to-face with obstacles that could have meant the end to this rural health network that the New York Department of Health and the John A. Hartford Foundation helped launch more than two years ago. Instead, John Laliberte, Glens Falls Hospital's director of information systems, and the rest of the IS team ...