Randomized Vertebroplasty Trials: Bad News or Sham News?

Phosphate binders in CKD: bad news or good news?

Hyperphosphatemia has long been considered an important contributor to the mineral and bone disorder associated with CKD (CKD-MBD). Already 50 years ago, Slatopolsky et al. showed that as GFR decreased, fractional phosphate excretion rose because of inhibition of tubular phosphate reabsorption by parathyroid hormone (PTH), thus preventing serum phosphorus to rise. In the last 10 years, fibrobla...

Good News or Bad News? Let the Market Decide

News stories about publicly traded companies are labeled positive or negative according to price changes of the company stock. It is shown that models based on lexical features can distinguish good news from bad news with accuracy of about 70%. Unfortunately, this works only when stories are labeled according to cotemporaneous price changes but does not work when they are labeled according to s...

hiv/aids good news and bad news

Good news, bad news, or no news: improving radio and TV coverage of nursing issues.

The broadcast media have awesome powertoday, and. as a result, nurses no longer have a choice as to whether or nOI they will use the radio and television media to enhance their professional image. Wcll-dcvclopcd radio and television communication skills can increase a nurse's own success. the success of health care institutions nurses work in. and the success of the nursing profess ion overa ll...

Traditional eye medicines--good or bad news?