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 […]