Response to ’Correspondence to viewpoint ’Defining refractory rheumatoid arthritis' by Buch' by Roodenrijs et al

Response to comment by Moxon et al.

We would like to thank Clinical Science for the opportunity to respond to the letter [1] which suggests that while we have been able to show that PTP1B inhibitor, trodusquemine, decreases atherosclerotic plaque size as well as serum triglycerides and cholesterol, that we have not shown that it reverses the plaque size, using in vivo imaging techniques such as MRI scanning or ultrasound. Both Ld...

Correspondence in relation to critical appraisal by Chapman et al.

We write to raise some of a number of serious concerns about the recent paper ‘Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal’. We believe that it is written in a misleading fashion and contains important errors of fact, presentation and inference. Tabulated data for symptoms, reliever use and exacerbations are presented only for patients randomly assigned to SM...

Response to commentary by Gutierrez et al.

Department of Entomology and Nematology, Department of Plant Sciences, and Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Laboratory of Entomology and Agricultural Zoology, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Phytokoy St....

Correspondence to the image quiz by Kaymak et al.

We read the paper by Kaymak et al. published in the latest issue of your journal with great interest (1). In this paper, the authors have discussed the benefit of fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis of fluid filled structures over the calvarium. In the first step of evaluation they used 2D transabdominal ultrasonography and detected a cystic mass over the poster...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.