Research: GDPs may need more training

Sex may need more than one

The positive replies to our original paper (West et al., 1999) leave us in the pleasurable position of being able to keep our ®nal comments short. Kondrashov (1999) demonstrates what Seger (1999) called `physics envy'. The idea that the Mutational Deterministic hypothesis can be easily validated or rejected, once the minimum rate of deleterious mutations per genome per generation (U) is known, ...

Do we need more research on neurolathyrism

It is nearly four decades since the discovery of ODAP as the major neurotoxic constituent of Lathyrus sativus seeds. However, several basic questions relating to neurolathyrism still remain unanswered. We are unable to convince several governments to ban the cultivation of the pulse and to take on a more serious approach to introducing the low toxin varieties. Meanwhile, farmers continue to gro...

Do we really need more research?

Lyme borreliosis: the need for more research.

References 1. White B, Seaton RA, Evans TJ. Management of suspected Lyme borreliosis: experience from an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy service. Benefit of intravenous antibiotic therapy in patients referred for treatment of neurologic Lyme disease. Trevino RP, et al. Two controlled trials of antibiotic treatment in patients with persistent symptoms and a history of Lyme disease. A ra...

The need for CAM research training.

In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the amount and quality of research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and according to a survey, German medical universities have an interest CAM research [1]. Nevertheless, compared to other fields of study, the number of researchers in Europe specialising in CAM has remained very small, whereas the number of physicians pra...