The Economic Paradigms Need to Be Updated

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

This number will be updated

Ecologists Need to be Cautious about Economic Metaphors: A Reply.

I thank the authors of the three responses to my article, ‘Have Ecosystem Services Been Oversold?’ [1], for providing a range of opinions that, to varying degrees, take the debate forward. In the most critical of the three letters, Potschin et al. [2] describe my paper as a caricature of the field, but then go on to caricature the paper itself. I did not claim that the ecosystem services (ES) p...

Does the definition of the Mediterranean diet need to be updated?

The term ‘Mediterranean diet’ reflects the dietary patterns characteristic of several countries in the Mediterranean Basin during the early 1960s. The association between greater longevity and reduced mortality and morbidity for coronary heart disease, certain cancers and other nutrition-related diseases, and the common dietary food patterns in these countries, have substantiated this concept. ...

Laboratory Criteria of Antiphospholipid Syndrome Need to be Updated or Strictly Followed?

The antiphospholipid syndrome is a very relevant disease that implicates different clinical features and laboratory criteria. Regarding laboratory diagnosis, it has been established in the last consensus that tests included are lupus anticoagulant (LA), anti cardiolipin (aCL) and anti 2 glycoprotein I antibodies (anti 2GPI) of IgG or IgM isotype at medium to high titres. There is not one unique...