New guidelines are needed

New guidelines are needed to improve the reporting of trials in addiction sciences.

We are pleased to announce the development of a new reporting guideline for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of social and psychological interventions. We invite your readership to participate in this project by visiting our website (http://tinyurl.com/CONSORT-study). Researchers within the addiction sciences have sought to improve the rigour of RCTs for more than 40 years [1]. There has bee...

Multiple Sclerosis: New Hypotheses are Needed

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) was recognized as a distinct disease involving both the brain and spinal cord and associated with disseminated demyelinating plaques (“la sclérose en plaques”) and axonal damage more than 145 years ago by French neurologist JeanMartin Charcot [1]. Since that time, the world has witnessed many remarkable discoveries. Due to progress in physics and mathematics, MRI has bec...

Visceral Leishmaniasis: New Health Tools Are Needed

0590 V isceral leishmaniasis (VL), commonly known as kala-azar, from the Hindu vernacular, is a human systemic disease caused by parasitic protozoan species of the genus Leishmania. Transmitted by the bite of the tiny and seemingly innocuous female phlebotomine sandfl y (Figure 1), the parasite enters macrophages, where it multiplies and establishes the infection (Figure 2). A multitude of clin...

What dynamic capabilities are needed in ERP activity?

Although many scholars have proposed all kinds of key successful factors (KSFs) for ERP activity to smoothly enhance the implementation of ERP, the KSFs are based too much on concept and protocol cannot help an enterprise to achieve this objective. Therefore, this research through qualitative interview method, integrating the KSFs and dynamic capability to set up a model so as to exhibit the ki...

Using guidelines for coronary revascularisation: how many are needed and are they any good?