US doctors accused of misusing embryos

Indocyanine green accused.

T he concept of retinal vital staining is not new. There has however been renewed interest in the subject since indocyanine green (ICG) was introduced as a vital stain to highlight the internal limiting membrane (ILM) during macular surgery. ICG’s well known role in cardiac and choroidal angiography exploits its properties as a fluorophore, but its role as a macular vital stain relies on its pr...

Difficult behaviour in drug-misusing and non-drug-misusing patients in general practice--a comparison.

Some GPs may be unwilling to take on the management of drug misusers because of the risk of difficult behaviour. However, this study found that in a practice running a drug misuse treatment programme there was a relatively small difference in the rates of difficult behaviour from drug misusers and general patients.

US experience with doctors and patients sharing clinical notes.

For decades clinicians have experimented with makingmedical records available to patients. Now electronic medical records and associated secure internet portals provide patients the opportunity to view test results, medications, and other selected parts of the medical record on line.But few patients are offered full access to their records; clinicians’ notes are rarely visible. After a demonstr...

Asbestos panelists accuse government of misusing science.

Trivial Nonce-Misusing Attack on Pure OMD

Pure OMD is an authenticated encryption mode that will be presented by Reyhanitabar et al. at FSE 2015. It is (among others) claimed to achieve authenticity against nonce-misusing adversaries. We show that this claim is incorrect, by presenting an adversary that makes 3 queries (including the forgery) of a total complexity 6.