Tinted Spectacles – Sign of Psychopathology?

EBUS-TBNA with ROSE-tinted spectacles?

Tuberculosis through the rose tinted spectacles of the EBUS endoscopist: be aware of the bias.

I read with interest the article on the utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) in tuberculous intrathoracic lymphadenopathy by Navani et al. EBUS-TBNA has been validated for the assessment of mediastinal nodes in lung cancer and to obtain a diagnosis in (presumed) centrally located lung cancer or sarcoidosis. In addition to a recent report, the s...

Electromyographic Evidence that FL-41 Tinted Spectacles Decrease Blink Frequency and Force in Benign Essential Blepharospasm

Optometric function in visually sensitive migraine before and after treatment with tinted spectacles.

Optometrists frequently encounter patients with migraine and patients and practitioners sometimes suspect that visual stimuli or visual anomalies trigger headaches. There is a lack of evidence-based research on the issue, however. Some patients with migraine may be hypersensitive to visual stimuli, and it has been suggested that individually prescribed coloured filters might be an effective tre...

Rose-Tinted Ecology

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org This important book relates much the most optimistic treatise on conservation that I have ever read: many would say naively optimistic. I should say from the outset that I genuinely fear that Michael Rosenzweig’s theories and examples are less broadly applicable than he argues. And yet I want to believe that he is right. If he is right, the conserv...