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The Focus of the blog is on Medical Librarianship, Library Science, Medicine, EBM, Epidemiology and Science. I've a PhD in Medical Biology and work as an information specialist in a Medical Library (3 days) and for The Cochrane Collaboration (1 day).

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February 24, 2013
06:34 PM
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Of Mice and Men Again: New Genomic Study Helps Explain why Mouse Models of Acute Inflammation do not Work in Men

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

A recent paper published in PNAS [1] caused quite a stir both inside and outside the scientific community. The study challenges the validity of using mouse models to test what works as a treatment in humans. At least this is what many online news sources seem to conclude: “drug testing may be a waste of time”[2], “we are not mice” [3, 4], or a bit more to the point: mouse models of inflammation are worthless [5, 6, 7].

But basically the current study looks only at one specific area, the area of inflammatory responses that occur in critically ill patients after severe trauma and burns (SIRS, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome... Read more »

Seok, J., Warren, H., Cuenca, A., Mindrinos, M., Baker, H., Xu, W., Richards, D., McDonald-Smith, G., Gao, H., Hennessy, L.... (2013) Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222878110

Raven, K. (2012) Rodent models of sepsis found shockingly lacking. Nature Medicine, 18(7), 998-998. DOI: 10.1038/nm0712-998a

Nemzek JA, Hugunin KM, & Opp MR. (2008) Modeling sepsis in the laboratory: merging sound science with animal well-being. Comparative medicine, 58(2), 120-8. PMID: 18524169

Wiersinga WJ. (2011) Current insights in sepsis: from pathogenesis to new treatment targets. Current opinion in critical care, 17(5), 480-6. PMID: 21900767

Khamsi R. (2012) Execution of sepsis trials needs an overhaul, experts say. Nature medicine, 18(7), 998-9. PMID: 22772540

Hotchkiss RS, Coopersmith CM, McDunn JE, & Ferguson TA. (2009) The sepsis seesaw: tilting toward immunosuppression. Nature medicine, 15(5), 496-7. PMID: 19424209

van der Worp, H., Howells, D., Sena, E., Porritt, M., Rewell, S., O'Collins, V., & Macleod, M. (2010) Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies?. PLoS Medicine, 7(3). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000245

ter Riet, G., Korevaar, D., Leenaars, M., Sterk, P., Van Noorden, C., Bouter, L., Lutter, R., Elferink, R., & Hooft, L. (2012) Publication Bias in Laboratory Animal Research: A Survey on Magnitude, Drivers, Consequences and Potential Solutions. PLoS ONE, 7(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043404

February 3, 2013
11:59 PM
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BAD Science or BAD Science Journalism? – A Response to Daniel Lakens

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

Two weeks ago there was a hot debate among Dutch Tweeps on “bad science, bad science journalism and bad science communication“. This debate was started and fueled by different Dutch blog posts on this topic.[1,4-6]

A controversial post, with both fierce proponents and fierce opposition was the post by Daniel Lakens [1], an assistant professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

I was among the opponents. Not because I don’t like a new fresh point of view, but because of a wrong reasoning and because Daniel continuously compares apples and oranges... Read more »

ter Bogt, T., Keijsers, L., & Meeus, W. (2013) Early Adolescent Music Preferences and Minor Delinquency. PEDIATRICS. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-0708

October 27, 2012
11:32 AM
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Why Publishing in the NEJM is not the Best Guarantee that Something is True: a Response to Katan

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

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Katan also states that “publishing in the NEJM is the best guarantee something is true”.

I think the latter statement is wrong for a number of reasons.*

First, most published findings are false [6]. Thus journals can never “guarantee” that published research is true.
Factors that make it less likely that research findings are true include a small effect size, a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships, selective outcome reporting, the “hotness” of the field (all applying more or less to Katan’s study, he also changed the primary outcomes during the trial[7]), a small study, a great financial interest and a low pre-study probability (not applicable) ... Read more »

de Ruyter JC, Olthof MR, Seidell JC, & Katan MB. (2012) A trial of sugar-free or sugar-sweetened beverages and body weight in children. The New England journal of medicine, 367(15), 1397-406. PMID: 22998340

Ioannidis, J. (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine, 2(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

de Ruyter JC, Olthof MR, Kuijper LD, & Katan MB. (2012) Effect of sugar-sweetened beverages on body weight in children: design and baseline characteristics of the Double-blind, Randomized INtervention study in Kids. Contemporary clinical trials, 33(1), 247-57. PMID: 22056980

Pereira, T., Horwitz, R.I., & Ioannidis, J.P.A. (2012) Empirical Evaluation of Very Large Treatment Effects of Medical InterventionsEvaluation of Very Large Treatment Effects. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 308(16), 1676. DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.13444

Lundh, A., Barbateskovic, M., Hróbjartsson, A., & Gøtzsche, P. (2010) Conflicts of Interest at Medical Journals: The Influence of Industry-Supported Randomised Trials on Journal Impact Factors and Revenue – Cohort Study. PLoS Medicine, 7(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000354

Lexchin, J. (2003) Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review. BMJ, 326(7400), 1167-1170. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7400.1167

Smith R. (2005) Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies. PLoS medicine, 2(5). PMID: 15916457

Handel, A., Patel, S., Pakpoor, J., Ebers, G., Goldacre, B., & Ramagopalan, S. (2012) High reprint orders in medical journals and pharmaceutical industry funding: case-control study. BMJ, 344(jun28 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e4212

Fang, F., & Casadevall, A. (2011) Retracted Science and the Retraction Index. Infection and Immunity, 79(10), 3855-3859. DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05661-11

Agrawal A, & Sharma A. (2012) Likelihood of false-positive results in high-impact journals publishing groundbreaking research. Infection and immunity, 80(3). PMID: 22338040

October 11, 2012
11:15 PM
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Sugary Drinks as the Culprit in Childhood Obesity? a RCT among Primary School Children

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

Childhood obesity is a growing health problem. Since 1980, the proportion of overweighted children has almost tripled in the USA: nowadays approximately 17% of children and adolescents are obese. (Source: cdc.gov [6])

Common sense tells me that obesity is the result of too high calory intake... Read more »

de Ruyter JC, Olthof MR, Seidell JC, & Katan MB. (2012) A Trial of Sugar-free or Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Body Weight in Children. The New England journal of medicine. PMID: 22998340

Ebbeling CB, Feldman HA, Chomitz VR, Antonelli TA, Gortmaker SL, Osganian SK, & Ludwig DS. (2012) A Randomized Trial of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Adolescent Body Weight. The New England journal of medicine. PMID: 22998339

Qi Q, Chu AY, Kang JH, Jensen MK, Curhan GC, Pasquale LR, Ridker PM, Hunter DJ, Willett WC, Rimm EB.... (2012) Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Genetic Risk of Obesity. The New England journal of medicine. PMID: 22998338

Caprio S. (2012) Calories from Soft Drinks - Do They Matter?. The New England journal of medicine. PMID: 22998341

May 17, 2012
08:35 PM
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The Scatter of Medical Research and What to do About it.

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

Paul Glasziou, GP and professor in Evidence Based Medicine, co-authored a new article in the BMJ [1]. Similar to another paper [2] I discussed before [3] this paper deals with the difficulty for clinicians of staying up-to-date with the literature. But where the previous paper [2,3] highlighted the mere increase in number of research articles over time, the current paper looks at the scatter of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews (SR’s) accross different journals cited in one year (2009) in PubMed.... Read more »

Hoffmann, Tammy, Erueti, Chrissy, Thorning,Sarah, & Glasziou, Paul. (2012) The scatter of research: cross sectional comparison of randomised trials and systematic reviews across specialties. BMJ. info:/10.1136/bmj.e3223

Bastian, H., Glasziou, P., & Chalmers, I. (2010) Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up?. PLoS Medicine, 7(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000326

May 12, 2012
08:56 AM
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Can Guidelines Harm Patients?

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

Recently I saw an intriguing “personal view” in the BMJ written by Grant Hutchison entitled: “Can Guidelines Harm Patients Too?” Hutchison is a consultant anesthetist with -as he calls it- chronic guideline fatigue syndrome. Hutchison underwent an acute exacerbation of his “condition” with the arrival of another set of guidelines in his email inbox. Hutchison:

On reviewing the level of evidence provided for the various recommendations being offered, I was struck by the fact that no relevant clinical trials had been carried out in the population of interest. Eleven out of 25 of the recommendations made were supported only by the lowest levels of published evidence ... Read more »

Hutchison, G. (2012) Guidelines can harm patients too. BMJ, 344(apr18 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e2685

Tricoci P, Allen JM, Kramer JM, Califf RM, & Smith SC Jr. (2009) Scientific evidence underlying the ACC/AHA clinical practice guidelines. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 301(8), 831-41. PMID: 19244190

Lee, D., & Vielemeyer, O. (2011) Analysis of Overall Level of Evidence Behind Infectious Diseases Society of America Practice Guidelines. Archives of Internal Medicine, 171(1), 18-22. DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.482

Menéndez R, Reyes S, Martínez R, de la Cuadra P, Manuel Vallés J, & Vallterra J. (2007) Economic evaluation of adherence to treatment guidelines in nonintensive care pneumonia. The European respiratory journal : official journal of the European Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology, 29(4), 751-6. PMID: 17005580

Sackett, D., Rosenberg, W., Gray, J., Haynes, R., & Richardson, W. (1996) Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ, 312(7023), 71-72. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7023.71

Aylett, V. (2010) Do geriatricians need guidelines?. BMJ, 341(sep29 3). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5340

May 11, 2012
12:50 AM
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What Did Deep DNA Sequencing of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) Really Reveal?

by Laika Spoetnik in Laika's Medliblog

A recent study published in PLOS genetics[1] on a genetic audit of Traditional Chinese Medicines (TCMs) was widely covered in the news. The headlines are a bit confusing as they said different things. Some headlines say “Dangers of Chinese Medicine Brought to Light by DNA Studies“, others that Bear and Antelope DNA are Found in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and still others more neutrally: Breaking down traditional Chinese medicine.

What have Bunce and his group really done and what is the newsworthiness of this article?... Read more »

Coghlan ML, Haile J, Houston J, Murray DC, White NE, Moolhuijzen P, Bellgard MI, & Bunce M. (2012) Deep Sequencing of Plant and Animal DNA Contained within Traditional Chinese Medicines Reveals Legality Issues and Health Safety Concerns. PLoS genetics, 8(4). PMID: 22511890

October 18, 2011
10:45 AM
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Evidence Based Point of Care Summaries [2] More Uptodate with Dynamed.

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

This post is part of a short series about Evidence Based Point of Care Summaries or POCs. In this series I will review 3 recent papers that objectively compare a selection of POCs. In the previous post I reviewed a paper from Rita Banzi and colleagues from the Italian Cochrane Centre [1]. They analyzed 18 POCs with respect to their [...]... Read more »

Banzi, R., Liberati, A., Moschetti, I., Tagliabue, L., & Moja, L. (2010) A Review of Online Evidence-based Practice Point-of-Care Information Summary Providers. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 12(3). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1288

Banzi, R., Cinquini, M., Liberati, A., Moschetti, I., Pecoraro, V., Tagliabue, L., & Moja, L. (2011) Speed of updating online evidence based point of care summaries: prospective cohort analysis. BMJ, 343(sep22 2). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d5856

Shurtz, S., & Foster, M. (2011) Developing and using a rubric for evaluating evidence-based medicine point-of-care tools. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 99(3), 247-254. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.012

Ketchum, A., Saleh, A., & Jeong, K. (2011) Type of Evidence Behind Point-of-Care Clinical Information Products: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(1). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1539

October 13, 2011
12:19 PM
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Evidence Based Point of Care Summaries [1] No “Best” Among the Bests?

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

For many of today’s busy practicing clinicians, keeping up with the enormous and ever growing amount of medical information, poses substantial challenges [6]. Its impractical to do a PubMed search to answer each clinical question and then synthesize and appraise the evidence. Simply, because busy health care providers have limited time and many questions per day. As [...]... Read more »

Banzi, R., Liberati, A., Moschetti, I., Tagliabue, L., & Moja, L. (2010) A Review of Online Evidence-based Practice Point-of-Care Information Summary Providers. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 12(3). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1288

Alper, B. (2010) Review of Online Evidence-based Practice Point-of-Care Information Summary Providers: Response by the Publisher of DynaMed. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 12(3). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1622

Goodyear-Smith F, Kerse N, Warren J, & Arroll B. (2008) Evaluation of e-textbooks. DynaMed, MD Consult and UpToDate. Australian family physician, 37(10), 878-82. PMID: 19002313

Ketchum, A., Saleh, A., & Jeong, K. (2011) Type of Evidence Behind Point-of-Care Clinical Information Products: A Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(1). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1539

McKibbon, K., & Fridsma, D. (2006) Effectiveness of Clinician-selected Electronic Information Resources for Answering Primary Care Physicians' Information Needs. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 13(6), 653-659. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2087

September 8, 2011
10:28 AM
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FUTON Bias. Or Why Limiting to Free Full Text Might not Always be a Good Idea.

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

A few weeks ago I was discussing possible relevant papers for the Twitter Journal Club (Hashtag #TwitJC), a succesful initiative on Twitter, that I have discussed previously here and here [7,8]. I proposed an article, that appeared behind a paywall. Annemarie Cunningham (@amcunningham) immediately ran the idea down, stressing that open-access (OA) is a pre-requisite for the TwitJC [...]... Read more »

Björk, B., Welling, P., Laakso, M., Majlender, P., Hedlund, T., & Guðnason, G. (2010) Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009. PLoS ONE, 5(6). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011273

Matsubayashi, M., Kurata, K., Sakai, Y., Morioka, T., Kato, S., Mine, S., & Ueda, S. (2009) Status of open access in the biomedical field in 2005. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 97(1), 4-11. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.1.002

WENTZ, R. (2002) Visibility of research: FUTON bias. The Lancet, 360(9341), 1256-1256. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11264-5

Murali NS, Murali HR, Auethavekiat P, Erwin PJ, Mandrekar JN, Manek NJ, & Ghosh AK. (2004) Impact of FUTON and NAA bias on visibility of research. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Mayo Clinic, 79(8), 1001-6. PMID: 15301326

Carney PA, Poor DA, Schifferdecker KE, Gephart DS, Brooks WB, & Nierenberg DW. (2004) Computer use among community-based primary care physician preceptors. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 79(6), 580-90. PMID: 15165980

Krieger, M., Richter, R., & Austin, T. (2008) An exploratory analysis of PubMed's free full-text limit on citation retrieval for clinical questions. Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 96(4), 351-355. DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.96.4.010

August 21, 2011
03:21 PM
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PubMed’s Higher Sensitivity than OVID MEDLINE… & other Published Clichés.

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

Is it just me, or are biomedical papers about searching for a systematic review often of low quality or just too damn obvious? I’m seldom excited about papers dealing with optimal search strategies or peculiarities of PubMed, even though it is my specialty. It is my impression, that many of the lower quality and/or less relevant papers are [...]... Read more »

Winchester DE, & Bavry AA. (2010) Limitations of the MEDLINE database in constructing meta-analyses. Annals of internal medicine, 153(5), 347-8. PMID: 20820050

Leclercq E, Kramer B, & Schats W. (2011) Limitations of the MEDLINE database in constructing meta-analyses. Annals of internal medicine, 154(5), 371. PMID: 21357916

June 19, 2011
07:37 PM
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HOT TOPIC: Does Soy Relieve Hot Flashes?

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

The theme of the Upcoming Grand Rounds held at June 21th (1st day of the Summer) at Shrink Rap is “hot”. A bit far-fetched, but aah you know….shrinks“. Of course they hope assume that we will express Weiner-like exhibitionism at our blogs. Or go into spicy details of hot sexpectations or other Penis Friday NCBI-ROFL posts. But no, not me, [...]... Read more »

Lethaby A, Marjoribanks J, Kronenberg F, Roberts H, Eden J, & Brown J. (2007) Phytoestrogens for vasomotor menopausal symptoms. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. info:/10.1002/14651858.CD001395.pub3.

Bolaños R, Del Castillo A, & Francia J. (2010) Soy isoflavones versus placebo in the treatment of climacteric vasomotor symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis. Menopause (New York, N.Y.), 17(3), 660-6. PMID: 20464785

March 13, 2011
07:48 PM
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A New Safe Blood Test to Diagnose Down Syndrome

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

The established method to prenatally diagnose chromosomal gross abnormalities is to obtain fetal cells from the womb with a fine needle, either by Amniocentesis (a sample of the fluid surrounding the foetus in the womb) or by Chorionic villus sampling (CVS, a sample of the placenta taken via the vaginal route). The procedures are not to be sneezed [...]... Read more »

LO, Y., CORBETTA, N., CHAMBERLAIN, P., RAI, V., SARGENT, I., REDMAN, C., & WAINSCOAT, J. (1997) Presence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum. The Lancet, 350(9076), 485-487. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)02174-0

Chiu, R., Akolekar, R., Zheng, Y., Leung, T., Sun, H., Chan, K., Lun, F., Go, A., Lau, E., To, W.... (2011) Non-invasive prenatal assessment of trisomy 21 by multiplexed maternal plasma DNA sequencing: large scale validity study. BMJ, 342(jan11 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c7401

Papageorgiou, E., Karagrigoriou, A., Tsaliki, E., Velissariou, V., Carter, N., & Patsalis, P. (2011) Fetal-specific DNA methylation ratio permits noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of trisomy 21. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/nm.2312

February 8, 2011
10:16 PM
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Much Ado About ADHD-Research: Is there a Misrepresentation of ADHD in Scientific Journals?

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

The reliability of science is increasingly under fire. We all know that media often gives a distorted picture of scientific findings (i.e. Hot news: Curry, Curcumin, Cancer & cure). But there is also an ever growing number of scientific misreports or even fraud (see bmj editorial announcing retraction of the Wakefield paper about causal relation beteen MMR vaccination [...]... Read more »

Gonon, F., Bezard, E., & Boraud, T. (2011) Misrepresentation of Neuroscience Data Might Give Rise to Misleading Conclusions in the Media: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. PLoS ONE, 6(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014618

Ioannidis, J. (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine, 2(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

Barbaresi, W., Katusic, S., Colligan, R., Weaver, A., & Jacobsen, S. (2007) Modifiers of Long-Term School Outcomes for Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Does Treatment with Stimulant Medication Make a Difference? Results from a Population-Based Study. Journal of Developmental , 28(4), 274-287. DOI: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e3180cabc28

GONON, F. (2009) The dopaminergic hypothesis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder needs re-examining. Trends in Neurosciences, 32(1), 2-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2008.09.010

November 23, 2010
04:15 PM
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Implementing Twitter in a Health Sciences Library

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

Twitter describes itself as “a service for friends, family, and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?” [2]. The “answers” are equally simple, because the tweet (that what is being “said”) must fit in 140 characters. The tweet does not only [...]... Read more »

Cuddy, C., Graham, J., & Morton-Owens, E. (2010) Implementing Twitter in a Health Sciences Library. Medical Reference Services Quarterly, 29(4), 320-330. DOI: 10.1080/02763869.2010.518915

October 6, 2010
03:45 PM
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How will we ever keep up with 75 Trials and 11 Systematic Reviews a Day?

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

An interesting paper was published in PLOS Medicine [1]. As an information specialist and working part time for the Cochrane Collaboration* (see below), this topic is close to my heart. The paper, published in PLOS Medicine is written by Hilda Bastian and two of my favorite EBM devotees ànd critics, Paul Glasziou and Iain Chalmers. Their article gives [...]... Read more »

Bastian, H., Glasziou, P., & Chalmers, I. (2010) Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up?. PLoS Medicine, 7(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000326

September 28, 2010
06:38 PM
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A Filter for Finding “All Studies on Animal Experimentation in PubMed”

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

For an introduction to search filters you can first read this post. Most people searching PubMed try to get rid of publications about animals. But basic scientists and lab animal technicians just want to find those animal studies. PubMed has built-in filters for that: the limits. There is a limit for “humans” and a limit for “animals”. [...]... Read more »

Hooijmans CR, Tillema A, Leenaars M, & Ritskes-Hoitinga M. (2010) Enhancing search efficiency by means of a search filter for finding all studies on animal experimentation in PubMed. Laboratory animals, 44(3), 170-5. PMID: 20551243

August 29, 2010
11:32 PM
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Does the NHI/FDA Paper Confirm XMRV in CFS? Well, Ditch the MR and Scratch the X… and… you’ve got MLV.

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

The long awaited paper that would ‘solve’ the controversies about the presence of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-related virus (XMRV) in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) was finally published in PNAS last week [1]. The study, a joint effort of the NIH and the FDA, was withheld, on request of the authors [2], because it contradicted [...]... Read more »

Lo SC, Pripuzova N, Li B, Komaroff AL, Hung GC, Wang R, & Alter HJ. (2010) Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 20798047

Erlwein, O., Kaye, S., McClure, M., Weber, J., Wills, G., Collier, D., Wessely, S., & Cleare, A. (2010) Failure to Detect the Novel Retrovirus XMRV in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. PLoS ONE, 5(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008519

Groom, H., Boucherit, V., Makinson, K., Randal, E., Baptista, S., Hagan, S., Gow, J., Mattes, F., Breuer, J., Kerr, J.... (2010) Absence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in UK patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Retrovirology, 7(1), 10. DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-7-10

van Kuppeveld, F., Jong, A., Lanke, K., Verhaegh, G., Melchers, W., Swanink, C., Bleijenberg, G., Netea, M., Galama, J., & van der Meer, J. (2010) Prevalence of xenotropic murine leukaemia virus-related virus in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Netherlands: retrospective analysis of samples from an established cohort. BMJ, 340(feb25 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1018

McClure, M., & Wessely, S. (2010) Chronic fatigue syndrome and human retrovirus XMRV. BMJ, 340(feb25 1). DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c1099

Lombardi VC, Ruscetti FW, Das Gupta J, Pfost MA, Hagen KS, Peterson DL, Ruscetti SK, Bagni RK, Petrow-Sadowski C, Gold B.... (2009) Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5952), 585-9. PMID: 19815723

Enserink M. (2010) Chronic fatigue syndrome. New XMRV paper looks good, skeptics admit--yet doubts linger. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5995), 1000. PMID: 20798285

August 8, 2010
12:52 PM
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Collaborating and Delivering Literature Search Results to Clinical Teams Using Web 2.0 Tools

by Laika in Laika's Medliblog

There seem to be two camps in the library, the medical and many other worlds: those who embrace Web 2.0, because they consider it useful for their practice and those who are unaware of Web 2.0 or think it is just a fad. There are only a few ways the Web 2.0-critical people can be convinced: by [...]... Read more »

Damani S, & Fulton S. (2010) Collaborating and delivering literature search results to clinical teams using web 2.0 tools. Medical reference services quarterly, 29(3), 207-17. PMID: 20677061

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