In clinical trials, screening mammography has been shown to reduce mortality from breast cancer by about 25% to 30% among women aged 50 years and older after only 5 to 6 years from the initiation of screening. Among women 40 to 49 years old, the evidence supporting the efficacy of screening mammography is less convincing. Eight randomized controlled trials have reported no statistically signifi...

Emollients are recommended by international guidelines as first-line agents in the management of atopic dermatitis (AD), which occurs in 10–20% of children in the western countries (1). They improve the cutaneous barrier function and reduce xerosis (1) and some of them, which contain oat extracts, display anti-inflammatory properties (2) and may reduce steroid consumption when used as adjuvants...

We read with interest the evidence-based recommendations for the use of prolonged corticosteroids in early moderate to severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) published in Critical Care Medicine by the Corticosteroid Guideline Task Force of SCCM and ESICM [1]. Whether corticosteroids have to be administered in adult patients with ARDS remains a matter of debate. Based on nine randomiz...

The standard approach to changing people’s energy consumption, which involves information about appropriately structured economic incentives, is becoming increasingly questioned. In an experiment, we investigated if it is possible to affect the electricity consumption recommended for the average American citizen by priming participants with either pro-social aspects of the “American stereotype”...