Letters to the Editor: Therapeutic drug monitoring

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...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

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 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...

Letters Letters n Editor:

“Fronti Nulla Fides”: No reliance can be placed on appearance. In a letter to the editor (AI Mugazine, Winter 1989), Benjamin Kuipers criticizes various points made in an earlier paper of ours (Akman and ten Hagen 1989). First, a side (nonetheless important) remark: Although Kuipers asserts that he distributes QSIM to interested researchers, our experience has been otherwise. Akman has tried tw...