Editorial: Half empty or half full?

Editorial commentary: influenza vaccine: glass half full or half empty?

In this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Ohmit and colleagues report the results of an assessment of influenza vaccine effectiveness during the 2010–2011 influenza season, using a nonrandomized, prospectively followed cohort [1]. This intriguing study had 2 surprising findings. Remarkably, the rate of polymerase chain reaction–documented influenza illness was not substantially different b...

Half empty or half full?

Synaptic Vesicles: Half Full or Half Empty?

The regulation of quantal size through pre- rather than postsynaptic mechanisms has recently received considerable attention as a potential mechanism for plasticity. Vesicular transporters catalyze the filling of synaptic vesicles with transmitter and are thus potential substrates for such presynaptic regulation. In this issue of Neuron, Prado et al. pursue this line of investigation and show t...

Half full or half empty VATS?

Cardiothoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Tom Treasure is responsible to the society for the collection and collation of these data and has a mandate from the society’s annual general meeting of its members to disseminate information based on the data. Contributors: AS, TT, and JvdM were responsible for study concept and design. TT and AS were responsible for acquisition of the data...

Idle Oil Wells: Half Empty or Half Full?

There are hundreds of thousands of oil and gas wells across North America that are not currently producing oil or gas. Many of these wells have not been permanently decommissioned to meet environmental standards for permanent closure, but left in a inactive state that enables the well to be more easily reactivated. Some of the wells have been temporarily inactive for more than sixty years which...