To Mesh or Not To Mesh? That Is the Question!

To mesh or not to mesh.

We are in the midst of an increasingly acrimonious discussion regarding the use of mesh in pelvic reconstructive surgery. Modern mesh kits, aggressively marketed by biotech companies, have become widespread. At times, they are used inappropriately, and significant complications such as pain syndromes and erosion are not uncommon. While conventional alternatives such as sacrospinous colpopexy an...

coeliac disease: to classify or not to classify – that is the question!

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the student committee of sports medicine research center: to be independent or not to be? that is the question

To scavenge or not to scavenge: that is the question.

Analysis of a series of diffraction data sets measured from four native as well as four nicotinic acid-soaked crystals of trypsin at 100 K shows a high variability in radiation-sensitivity among individual crystals for both nicotinic acid-soaked and native crystals. The level of radiation-sensitivity and the extent of its variability is statistically indistinguishable between the two conditions...

To P or not to P: that is the question.

In 1993 Eugene Harris, a well-known biostatistician at the NIH, wrote an editorial for Clinical Chemistry regarding the use of P values vs confidence intervals in the evaluation of scientific data (1 ). This has long been a contentious topic in the scientific world and one with which each new generation of scientists has had to grapple on the basis of arguments advanced for the use of various s...