DPD testing must remain a recommended option, but not a recommended routine test

Routine and recommended vaccinations for travellers.

Travel risks should not be neglected. Health hazard is unprofitable. Adequately planned, individually adjusted prophylaxis makes travel not only pleasant, but safe as well. It is worth to emphasize that fever in person coming back from the tropics requires quick exclusion (or confirmation) of malaria.

Routine outpatient thyroid surgery cannot be recommended.

INTRODUCTION More than 1,100 thyroid operations are performed annually in Denmark. The major concern regarding outpatient thyroid surgery (OTS) is post-thyroidectomy bleeding (PTB), which may cause compression of the trachea and compromise respiration. We aimed to explore the incidence of PTB and the exact timespan from surgery to PTB, and to identify risk factors for PTB in order to discuss wh...

Recommended Practices for Spreadsheet Testing

This paper presents the author’s recommended practices for spreadsheet testing. Documented spreadsheet error rates are unacceptable in corporations today. Although improvements are needed throughout the systems development life cycle, credible improvement programs must include comprehensive testing. Several forms of testing are possible, but logic inspection is recommended for module testing. L...

Testing for IgG4 against foods is not recommended as a diagnostic tool: EAACI Task Force Report.

Serological tests for immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) against foods are persistently promoted for the diagnosis of food-induced hypersensitivity. Since many patients believe that their symptoms are related to food ingestion without diagnostic confirmation of a causal relationship, tests for food-specific IgG4 represent a growing market. Testing for blood IgG4 against different foods is performed with ...

Routine supplement of prebiotics and probiotics to newborn infants is not recommended.