Myths and Truths About Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

TRUTHS AND MYTHS ABOUT THE MUSHROOM Agaricus blazei

The mushroom Agaricus blazei Murrill was discovered in Piedade, state of São Paulo, Brazil, and sent to Japan to be studied for its medicinal properties. Studies in guinea pigs revealed antitumor properties, triggering Japanese importation of A. blazei from Brazil. Because of its high price on the international market, many companies and rural growers produce A. blazei as alternative crop to in...

A Look at the Myths and Half-truths about Profit and Non-profit Hospital Performance

Lessons from structure-function studies in asthma: myths and truths about what we teach.

Asthma is a syndrome that is distinguished and diagnosed on the basis of abnormalities of pulmonary function (7). Patients with asthma should exhibit airflow obstruction characterized by periodic falls in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), airflow obstruction that responds or normalizes to a bronchodilator, and airway hyperresponsiveness. Accordingly, asthma is unique among pulmonary disea...

Myths and plain truths about schizophrenia epidemiology--the NAPE lecture 2004.

OBJECTIVE Science needs to constantly match research models against the data. With respect to the epidemiology of schizophrenia, the widely held belief that the incidence of schizophrenia shows little variation may no longer be supported by the data. The aims of this paper are (i) to explore data-vs.-belief mismatch with respect to the incidence of schizophrenia, and (ii) to speculate on the ca...

Predictors of Convergence Curricula in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs

This study is an attempt to understand the mechanism driving programs of journalism and mass communication to converge media sequences. The study also describes the extent and variation of these changes. Findings from a national survey show that a majority of programs are at least experimenting with convergence, though most are also maintaining specialized tracks in some form. Findings also sug...