Letters to the Editor: Drug evaluation

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Busulfan Letters to the Editor

sample weight be measured without delay. Once an accurate sweat sample weight is obtained, chloride can be measured within 5 days without affecting the reliability of the results, irrespective of storage conditions. A limitation of this study is that we examined vials from only 1 manufacturer. Other storage systems may have different sealing properties and may exhibit different effects due to s...

Automatic Adverse Drug Events Detection Using Letters to the Editor

We present and test the intuition that letters to the editor in journals carry early signals of adverse drug events (ADEs). Surprisingly these letters have not yet been exploited for automatic ADE detection unlike for example, clinical records and PubMed. Part of the challenge is that it is not easy to access the full-text of letters (for the most part these do not appear in PubMed). Also lette...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sleep Evaluation by Actigraphy for Drinkers

Geoghegan et al. (2012) recently reported the sleep quality of 33 college students, aged 20–25 years, using wrist actigraphy in combination with sleep diary and mood questionnaire to know the effect of alcohol on sleep. As a main result, they observed significant decreases in total sleep time and sleep latency associated with alcohol drinking. They speculated on the mechanism in this change of ...

Letters Letter to the Editor

The good name of TEX One of the many wonderful things about TEX is that its behaviour is essentially the same, no matter where it runs. TEX is a fixed point, identical on all machines. The same goes for METAFONT and the Computer Modern fonts. The author of TEX, Donald Knuth, has made it perfectly clear that he does not object to anyone revising TEX(or METAFONT) just as long as the resulting pro...