Prescribing: what's all the fuss?

What's all the fuss about?

What's all the fuss? Safety concerns about COX-2 inhibitors rofecoxib (Vioxx) and celecoxib (Celebrex).

Public health and bovine tuberculosis: what's all the fuss about?

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in UK cattle is increasing rapidly. Consequently, the UK Government is spending escalating sums of money in attempts at disease control. We propose that bTB control in cattle is irrelevant as a public health policy. In the UK, cattle-to-human transmission is negligible. Aerosol transmission, the only probable route of human acquisition, occurs at inconsequential levels...

Author’s response to reviews Title: What's in your wallet? A cluster randomized trial of the effects of showing comparative patient out-of-pocket costs on primary care prescribing for uncomplicated hypertension. Authors:

Title: What's in your wallet? A cluster randomized trial of the effects of showing comparative patient out-of-pocket costs on primary care prescribing for uncomplicated hypertension. Authors: Robyn Tamblyn ([email protected]) Nancy Winslade ([email protected]) Christina J. Qian ([email protected]) Teresa Moraga ([email protected]) Allen Huang ([email protected]) Ve...

The Utility of Follow-up Skeletal Surveys in Child Abuse

OBJECTIVE: Follow-up skeletal surveys (FUSS) are performed frequently in cases of possible physical abuse based on the evidence from small retrospective cohorts. Our objective was to determine the proportion of FUSS that identified new information in a large, multicenter population of children with concerns of physical abuse. METHODS: This was a prospective secondary analysis of an observationa...