Barking up the wrong tree? Industry funding of academic research. A case study with commentaries.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Nellie Shepherd is a graduate student at a large Midwestern university working with a group of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the lab of Dr. Thomas Katz. The primary focus of the lab group’s research is various aspects of the fate, transport and biological effects of 1,3,5-trimethyltriazinetrione (TTT) in aquatic systems. TTT is a byproduct of several chemical manufacturing proc...

A comparative study of interpretative methods in conciliating purity and wrong of the prophet Dawood

Commentator`s interpretative methods is known as one origin for Shiite and Sunni difference in Quran commentaries. Commentators, when interpreting the verses 22-26 of chapter Suad, differ in conciliating prophet Dawood`s purity and wrong. Surveying Shiite and Sunni`s commentary methods comparatively, the paper has intended to study the origins of commentator`s differences. To do so, some Shiite...

The NLRB's proposed rule for the determination of health care bargaining units: is the AHA barking up the wrong tree?

Barking up the wrong tree? Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose syphilitic aortitis.

The presentation of syphilitic aortitis is often atypical and available serological tests are non-specific. The diagnostic gold standard remains direct identification of microorganisms in tissue. We present a case of syphilitic aortitis that presented as a mediastinal mass and report the use of polymerase chain reaction for Treponema pallidum to diagnose syphilitic aortic disease.

Abstract: Does Industry Funding Mean More Publications for Subspecialty Academic Plastic Surgeons?

BACKGROUND Conflict of interest among physicians in the context of private industry funding led to the introduction of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in 2010. This study examined whether private industry funding correlated with scholarly productivity in the respective subspecialties of plastic surgery and the wider academic plastic surgery community. MATERIALS AND METHODS Full-time plast...