Taking over amid a crisis can have some advantages

Health amid a financial crisis: a complex diagnosis.

Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert, senior adviser on disease control at Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, remembers the last time the wheels came off the global economy. “There was less travel and purchase of cars and motorcycles. Sales of alcohol – as well as tobacco – were reduced. These factors resulted in fewer deaths and injuries in road accidents,” he says. Wibulpolprasert’s rather upbeat rema...

Genetically engineered models have advantages over xenografts for preclinical studies.

Mouse models of human cancer are valuable tools for cancer research. Although xenografts and genetically engineered models (GEMs) possess limitations as well as advantages, each system plays a significant role in preclinical testing. Tumor xenografts are easy to use, relatively inexpensive, and reproducible. The main drawback of xenografts is that the genetics and histology of the tumors are fr...

Oculogyric crisis in a patient taking metoclopramide

Oculogyric crisis is an acute dystonic reaction of the ocular muscles characterized by bilateral dystonic elevation of visual gaze lasting from seconds to hours. This reaction is most commonly explained as an adverse reaction to drugs such as antiemetics, antipsychotics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, and antimalarials. Although the incidence of metoclopramide-induced acute dystonic reactions...

Conservation. Averting lemur extinctions amid Madagascar's political crisis.

Does Minimally-Invasive Pancreaticoduodenectomy Have Advantages over Its Open Method? A Meta-Analysis of Retrospective Studies

BACKGROUND While more and more open procedures now routinely performed using laparoscopy, minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy (MIPD) remains one of the most challenging abdominal procedures. Therefore, we carried out this meta-analysis to evaluate whether MIPD is safe, feasible and worthwhile. METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library were searched to identify studies published betw...