Safely restarting renal transplant programs should be a priority

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

Undernutrition should be the first priority.

Madam, Public Health Nutrition is now established as an international journal, and you are to be congratulated for that. But as a regular reader I am disappointed and even somewhat dismayed to find so little coverage of undernutrition, as an issue that is at the heart of public health nutrition. My view, which may be unpopular, is that we who have lived on the fat of the land should face with r...

Who should be given priority in a queue?

We consider a memoryless single server queue with two classes of customers, each having its fixed entry fee. We show that profit and social welfare may benefit from a service discipline based on relative priorities. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium can be safely administered in maintenance renal transplant patients: results of a 1-year study.

With the objective of enhancing upper gastrointestinal (GI) tolerability, enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium (EC-MPS, myfortic, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland) has been developed. This double-blinded, 12-month study investigated whether renal transplant patients taking mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) can be safely converted to EC-MPS. Stable kidney transplant patients were randomized to re...

Staphylococcus lugdunensis; a pathogen that should be considered in Iran

Background: Staphylococcus lugdunensis is Gram-positive cocci of the staphylococcaceae family. S. lugdunensis despite having a clotting factor (wall coagulase), was classified in the coagulase negative staphylococcus group (CoNS) for lack of free coagulase. Although this bacterium is part of the human normal flora, in terms of virulence, S. lugdunensis is in second place after S. aureus. S. lug...