Surgery
SE Asia's first heart transplant patient dies at 76
Southeast Asia's first heart transplant patient and one of the world's longest surviving cases has died, his family said Monday, more than 31 years after his operation.
Jan 16, 2017
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News tagged with editors
Health
Advice for Canada's new health minister
Enact a national pharmacare program for Canadians. Let science and evidence guide health policy. Keep your promises. These are some of the recommendations that the editors of Canada's major medical journal, CMAJ (Canadian ...
Dec 7, 2015
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Neuroscience
Post-concussion 'return to play' decision for footballers should be made solely by doctors, says new editorial
An editorial published today in The Lancet Neurology calls for sports authorities to take into consideration the long term neurological problems that repeated concussions can cause.
Jul 14, 2014
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Medical research
Can toxicity of a DNA drug be predicted and minimized?
New classes of therapeutic antisense oligonucleotides can have toxic effects on the liver. A novel machine learning-based approach used to predict the hepatotoxic potential of an antisense drug based on its chemical sequence ...
Aug 27, 2013
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Genetics
Observing live gene expression in the body
Most of our physiological functions fluctuate throughout the day. They are coordinated by a central clock in the brain and by local oscillators, present in virtually every cell. Many molecular gearwheels of this internal ...
Jun 30, 2013
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Committee on Publication Ethics launches ethical guidelines for peer reviewers
Scholarly journals need to ensure that their peer reviewers act constructively, respect confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interests, according to new guidelines launched by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Mar 25, 2013
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New guidance urges improved reporting of important outcomes for patients in trials publications
Clinical trials provide us with the best evidence to guide patient treatment and inform health policy. Yet, crucial information, on outcomes reported directly by patients such as their quality of life, is often left out of ...
Feb 28, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Drug delivery strategy eliminates myotonia symptoms in mice with myotonic dystrophy
By targeting the specific mutation that causes the hereditary neuromuscular disease myotonic dystrophy, it is possible to neutralize the mutant RNA toxicity and minimize or even eliminate the disabling symptoms of the disease. ...
Feb 22, 2013
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Greater transparency needed in publishing information from clinical trials
An initiative from the drugs regulator, the European Medicines Agency, to commit to releasing all of the information from clinical trials once the marketing authorization process has ended, which has been greeted with cautious ...
Jan 29, 2013
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New publication guidelines for systematic reviews from BMC Medicine
Two articles in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine by Geoff Wong, Trisha Greenhalgh and colleagues, propose publication guidelines for both realist synthesis and meta-narrative reviews.
Jan 28, 2013
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