Oncotrace

For optimal treatment in cancerology, clinicians need specific, precise, sensitive methods to quantify treatment response, monitor residual disease and detect early recurrence in patients. Residual...

Why Everybody Should Read “Why Nobody Believes the Numbers”

By Jaan Sidorov, MD Back in the early 1900s, Albert Einstein had a problem. Sophisticated instruments were unexpectedly showing that the measured speed of light was the same if the source or the ob...

Biogen Comes Back Strong

Biogen Comes Back Strong [the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)]   From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (December 1, 2012)   Dec. 01--RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- Two years after Biogen Ide...

$600,000 to Help G1 Develop Drugs

$600,000 to Help G1 Develop Drugs [the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)] From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (September 19, 2012) Sept. 19--G1 Therapeutics, a Chapel Hill startup that aims to co...

Clinical trials with nonblinded outcome assessors have high observer bias

A new study of randomized clinical trials found significant observer bias toward a more beneficial treatment effect in nonblinded trials when the researcher knew the treatment being given to the parti...

Bobby Deen Talks About His New Show, His Mom's Diabetes

Bobby Deen Talks About His New Show, His Mom's Diabetes [the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)] From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (September 4, 2012) Sept. 04--Bobby Deen, son of Food Network s...

Triangle Drug Company Specializes in Side-Effects of Cancer Therapy

Triangle Drug Company Specializes in Side-Effects of Cancer Therapy [the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)] From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (January 29, 2013) Jan. 29--MORRISVILLE -- Like a m...

Salix Seeks Drug's Approval While Its Development Partner Fumes

Salix Seeks Drug's Approval While Its Development Partner Fumes [the News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.] From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (July 6, 2012) July 06--When Salix Pharmaceuticals and N...

Salix Drug for HIV Patients Wins FDA Approval

Salix Drug for HIV Patients Wins FDA Approval [the News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)] From News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (January 1, 2013) Jan. 01--Raleigh drug company Salix Pharmaceuticals has...

Price discounts on alcohol in a city in northern England.

Aims To describe the extent and nature of price discounts on alcohol in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Methods An observational survey in stores licensed for off-sales in December 2010 to January 2011....

Do generic firms and the Spanish public purchaser respond to consumer price differences of generics under reference pricing?

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of competition on the consumer price and the average price paid by the National Health System (NHS) under reference pricing in the Spanish generic market. METHODS: Des...

16 for the price of 10: effects of a ban on multi-buy alcohol.

Multi-buy is one method by which retailers discount alcoholic beverage sales. It is common in the UK. A Scottish ban on multi-buys had an immediate impact on sales. Because other methods for lowering...

Group selection and inclusive fitness are not equivalent; the Price equation vs. models and statistics.

It is often suggested that any group selection model can be recast in terms of inclusive fitness. A standard reference to support that claim is "'Quantitative genetics, inclusive fitness, and group se...

Book Review Quirks of Human Anatomy Lewis I. Held Jr New York , Cambridge University Press , 2009 Hardback ISBN 978-0-51848-2 , Price $115.00 Paperback ISBN 978-0-521-73233-8 , Price $34.00 272 pp. On the Shoulders of Giants: Eponyms and Names in Obstetri