Peru warns against ritual New Year effigy-burning
Peru warned the public Tuesday against its popular New Year tradition of burning national hate figures in effigy, saying the smoke poses a cancer risk.
Dec 29, 2015
Archive: 29/12/2015
Microorganisms in the womb set stage for diseases
Researchers review importance of microorganisms that exist in the gut, suggesting perturbation of the environment during pregnancy, delivery and early infancy could impact the developing baby's early microbiome and set the ...
Dec 29, 2015
Factors predicting low patient accrual in cancer clinical trials
Nearly one in four publicly sponsored cancer clinical trials fail to enroll enough participants to draw valid conclusions about treatments or techniques. Such trials represent a waste of scarce human and economic resources ...
Dec 29, 2015
Clinical research experts comment on the state of their fields
In an Editorial published this week in PLOS Medicine, editors ask an international panel of eleven expert researchers and clinicians spanning a range of specialties to answer questions on their field and what developments ...
Dec 29, 2015
Increased long-term death risk for adolescents hospitalized for adversity-related injury
Adolescents discharged from hospitals in England after an admission for violent, drug- or alcohol-related, or self-inflicted injuries have increased risks of subsequent death and emergency re-admission up to a decade later, ...
Dec 29, 2015
Expanded regimens associated with improved treatment response in MDR-TB
Treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) with regimens that include a greater number of drugs may improve outcomes, and baseline drug susceptibility testing (DST) could identify drugs with the greatest likelihood ...
Dec 29, 2015
