The jury is still out: COVID-19 and male reproduction

Splinting poststroke: the jury is still out.

Splinting Poststroke: the Jury Is Still Out To the Editor: In the article abstract by Lannin et al,1 the authors claim “the practice of routine splinting soon after stroke should be discontinued.” Their presented data does not show this. The stated aim was to determine the effect of splinting “on contracture in the wrist and long finger flexor muscles”1 without defining ‘contracture’. Participa...

Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out

In a recently published report, Poole et al. utilized a crossover design to determine the effect of nonprescription antimicrobial exposure on the human microbiome (1). After an initial washout phase, participants were provided either products that contained TCS or products without TCS for use over a 4-month period, followed by a switch to the opposite exposure regimen for another 4 months. Typi...

Osteoporosis and ERT--the jury is still out.

Reply to “Triclocarban and Health: the Jury Is Still Out”

Lauren Pischel,a Angela C. Poole,b,d Catherine Ley,a Gina Suh,a Julia K. Goodrich,b Thomas D. Haggerty,a Ruth E. Ley,b,d Julie Parsonnet,a,c Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USAa; Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAb; Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Me...

Dysglycaemia, cardiovascular outcome and treatment. Is the jury still out?

Dale and co-workers have reported on the influence of glycaemic control on long-term mortality from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in patients with asymptomatic newly detected diabetes mellitus participating in a population-wide health survey in Norway. The annual measurements of glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in subjects with newly diagnosed diabetes during the 10 years following recruitment ...