Intervention trials in cancer survivors play an important and growing role in complementing the wealth of knowledge obtained from observational studies about how lifestyle can improve clinical, physiologic, and psychological outcomes. As the number of intervention trials grows, attention to study design and reporting is essential to establishing a high-quality data pool from which to make evide...

The successful demonstration that antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can be used in diverse ways to reduce HIV acquisition or transmission risks--either taken as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by those who are uninfected or as early treatment for prevention (T4P) by those living with HIV--expands the armamentarium of existing HIV prevention tools. These findings have implications for the design of fut...

PURPOSE Women in academic medicine are not achieving the same career advancement as men, and face unique challenges in managing work and family alongside intense work demands. The purpose of this study was to investigate how a supportive department/division culture buffered women from the impact of work demands on work-to-family conflict. METHOD As part of a larger intervention trial, the aut...

Gerrit Cornelis LANGELAAR elektrotechnisch ingenieur, geboren te Leersum.

The Laplace likelihood method for estimating linear conditional quantile functions with right censored data proposed by Bottai and Zhang (2010) is demonstrated to be highly non-robust.

Aangesien gesondheidsdienste, veral hospitale, van die grootste werkgewers in die land is, behoort hulle werknemers dieselfde gehalte bedryfsgesondheidsorg te ontvang as die beste wat in die nywerheid aangebied word. Daar is 'n behoefte aan so ’n diens aangesien hospitaalwerknemers aan spesifieke gesondheidsrisiko’s blootgestel is. Verder sal die diens dieselfde voordele aan werkgewers bied as ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some insight into the continuous monitoring and computer analysis of medical signals, in particular the electrocardiogram which has been chosen as a model. The advantages of having continuous data analyzed by an accurate, objective system are elaborated. The great mass of data being collected has heretofore been stored and forgotten in many instances but ...