Controversies: Is it time to stop searching for MRSA? (Stop the ritual of tracing colonised people)

Is it time to stop teaching breast self-examination?

When is it safe to stop patching?

Prior reports indicate that about half of amblyopia patients successfully treated with occlusion subsequently require maintenance patching. This retrospective study was designed to discover what clinical characteristics might be associated with a stable outcome following primary occlusion. Included were 188 patients who: (1) had amblyopia related to strabismus, anisometropia or media opacity; a...

Is it easy to stop RNA polymerase?

Among transcription factors that bind to bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) and modulate its activity, a number of small molecules irreversibly inhibit RNAP thereby causing cell death. To be of clinical significance such inhibitors must (1) inhibit a broad range of bacterial RNAPs but not affect human cells, (2) penetrate bacterial cell walls and (3) circumvent bacterial resistance mechanisms. Rif...

STOP-IT: Windows executable software for the stop-signal paradigm.

The stop-signal paradigm is a useful tool for the investigation of response inhibition. In this paradigm, subjects are instructed to respond as fast as possible to a stimulus unless a stop signal is presented after a variable delay. However, programming the stop-signal task is typically considered to be difficult. To overcome this issue, we present software called STOP-IT, for running the stop-...

[Angioplasty versus medical treatment in oligosymptomatic patients: is it time to stop it?].

Correspondência: Pedro José Negreiros de Andrade • Francisco Holanda, 992/1101 Dionisio Torres 60130-040 Fortaleza, CE Brasil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Artigo recebido em 30/06/09; revisado recebido em 30/10/09; aceito em 15/12/09. Palavras-chave Angioplastia, terapêutica, stents farmacológicos, pacientes oligossintomáticos. Acaba de ser publicado no New England Journal of...