Immunoglobulin M hepatitis B core antibody: To titer or not to titer? To use or not to use?

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

can Isolated hepatitis B core antibody in HIV-infected patients response to hepatitis B vaccine help to elucidate the cause?

RDMA Reads: To Use or Not to Use?

Fast networks with RDMA are becoming common in data centers and, together with large amounts of main memory in today’s machines, they allow unprecedented performance for traditional data center applications such as key-value stores, graph stores, and relational databases. Several systems that use RDMA have appeared recently in the literature, all showing orders of magnitude improvements in late...

Hormone replacement therapy: to use or not to use?

The main indication for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is to control menopausal symptoms and improve quality of life. Ideally, withdrawal of HRT should be attempted after 4-5 years of therapy. HRT reduces fracture risk and remains appropriate therapy for osteoporosis, particularly in women with symptoms. HRT is not appropriate for primary or secondary cardioprotection. HRT leads to a small i...

Beta blockers in hypertension – to use or not to use?

Traditionally, beta blockers were used as first line agents in the treatment of uncomplicated hypertension and recommended as a class by national and international guidelines despite paucity of evidence for their cardiovascular benefit. Evidence from recent trials and metaanalyses have questioned the use of beta blocker as the preferred agent. In this article we review the data available from c...