International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2010, 4:22
A qualitative inquiry into the psychosocial consequences for the Vanni internationally displaced persons (IDPs) caught in the final war between state forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in northern Sri Lanka in 2009.
Identifying predictors for severe disability after ICU treatment would aid physicians in deciding whether to initiate neurocritical care, as rates of retrospective consent are lowest in patients with a poor functional outcome.
In mammals, CTCF acts as an insulator to maintain parent-specific expression from an imprinted domain.
McDonald and colleagues show that Drosophila does it the same way.
CTCF is necessary for the maintenance of genetic imprinting in mammals. Hou and Corces comment on a report in BMC Biology on the evolutionary conservation of the mechanism in Drosophila.
Funding Record Number
(benjamin alman, 30Jul2010)
The Canadian Institute for Health Research, Research Funding Number for this work is 15136. ...
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Dihydroartemisinin: More Life-boat than Death-ride
(Dennis Schmatz, 29Jul2010)
Sir, I write in response to the commentary article in your journal entitled The pharmaceutical death-ride of dihydroartemisinin (Malaria Journal 2010, 9:212 doi:10.1186/1475-2875-9-212),...
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Rand Study Response from NCQA
(Apoorva Stull, 27Jul2010)
To the Editor: The recent study by Adams et al entitled Incorporating statistical uncertainty in the use of physician cost profiles adds significant information to our understanding...
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Adams JL et al.BMC Health Services Research, 10:57