Archive of Medical Research

A national conference to determine research priorities in pediatric solid organ transplantation.
The need for evidence-based practice guidelines requires high quality, carefully controlled clinical research trials. This multidisciplinary conference attempted to: identify urgent clinical and research issues, identify obstacles to performing clinical trials, develop concepts for organ-specific and all-organ research and generate a […]

Enhanced in vitro activation of immunocompetent cells in healthy individuals being subcutaneously \’vaccinated\’ with placebo (physiological saline).
The effect of subcutaneous injection of physiological saline (given as \’placebo\’ in a randomized double-blinded placebo-controlled study) on immunocompetent cells from healthy individuals was analyzed. In two studies in 1998/1999 and 2002, 16 and 13 healthy […]

Pharmaceuticals and medical devices: medical devices.
Tiffany S.

Seymour Benzer (1921-2007).
Greenspan RJ.
The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay, Hopkins Drive, San Diego, California 92121, USA. greenspan@nsi.edu

All tanked up.
Williams N.

A phase I/II study to evaluate the toxicity and efficacy of accelerated fractionation radiotherapy for the palliation of dysphagia from carcinoma of the oesophagus.
AIMS: We hypothesised that accelerated fractionated radiotherapy may provide a good palliative approach for dysphagia relief in patients with incurable oesophageal cancer, significantly reducing the overall duration of treatment, […]

Cloned beef hash.
Harris RF.

Elucidating the role of chest wall irradiation in \’intermediate-risk\’ breast cancer: the MRC/EORTC SUPREMO trial.
Kunkler IH, Canney P, van Tienhoven G, Russell NS; MRC/EORTC (BIG 2-04) SUPREMO Trial Management Group.

Pseudoventricular tachycardia.
Tomcsányi J, Bózsik B.

Mimicking acute coronary syndrome.
Tomcsány J, Bózsik B.