Wading Through the Quagmire: Making Sense of Dietary Supplement Utilization

Since the 1980s, numerous studies conducted in the United States have attempted to estimate the prevalence of supplement use among the population (e.g., the National Health and Nutrition Survey and the National Health Interview Surveys). Despite these efforts, the true extent of supplement use is unclear. The literature pertaining to the prevalence of supplement use refers to a confusing array of ambiguous terms. Forming accurate conclusions about supplement use is confounded by differences in terminology and methodology between studies. Direct comparisons between studies are therefore inherently problematic. The emphasis in future investigations should be on standardizing the study design; recording data on daily, weekly, or even monthly use in order to establish the safety and efficacy of supplement use; and adopting a consistent, uniform definition of the term supplement .     

Occupational Therapy for Children with Renal Failure

This paper outlines the treatment of renal failure at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, and highlights the physical and psychological problems for children undergoing treatment. The occupational therapy programme is presented, and the author focuses on issues surrounding the chronically ill and dying child.     

Life After the Screen: Making Sense of Many P‐Values

A multiple analytic approach may be useful for analyzing complex traits since different methods extract both similar and distinct, but complementary pieces of information from genome screen data on extended pedigrees. We examined the usefulness of combining p‐values both across methods and across adjacent markers, taking into account the observed correlation structure among these p‐values. To this end, we employed the recently proposed truncated product method [Zaykin et al., Genet Epidemiol, in press]. It appears that this approach is helpful for visualizing priority regions for follow‐up analysis and reducing the number of false‐positive linkage signals. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

For Hypercalcemia of Renal Failure: Parathyroid Grafts

A 45-year-old man presented with a three-month history of worsening shortness of breath on exertion, orthopnea, peripheral edema, and abdominal distention.     

感悟IVD全球市场技术与应用的相得益彰即能为IVD生产者带来巨大的发展时机

体外诊断检验(In Vitro Diagnostic Tests,IVD)产品市场是所有医疗器械市场中最为复杂的一部分,涉及从公共到私人的购买者;开处方的医疗人员和实验室专家;还包括不断增长的各种临床甚至家用的设备.想要在这一市场取得进展,公司必须进行一段时期的专注研究,以了解他们的目标市场.本文从地域和科技两个角度分析IVD市场,并提供专家们对未来几年里的主要趋势和重要问题所持的基本看法.     

感悟IVD全球市场

体外诊断检验(In Vitro Diagnostic Tests，IVD)产品市场是所有医疗器械市场中最为复杂的一部分，涉及从公共到私人的购买；开处方的医疗人员和实验室专家；还包括不断增长的各种临床甚至家用的设备。想要在这一市场取得进展，公司必须进行一段时期的专注研究，以了解他们的目标市场。本从地域和科技两个角度分析IVD市场，并提供专家们对未来几年里的主要趋势和重要问题所持的基本看法。