Articles of Interest

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May 2003

  • BMJ, Volume 326, Issue 7400 - May 31, 2003
    • Education and Debate - Who pays for the pizza? Redefining the relationships between doctors and drug companies 1 Entanglement
    • Education and Debate - Who pays for the pizza? 2 Disentanglement
    • Education and Debate - How to dance with porcupines rules and guidelines on doctors' relations with drug companies
    • Education and Debate - How can research ethics committees protect patients better?
    • Clinical Review - Diagnosis, investigation and management of deep vein thrombosis
    • Papers - Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality a systematic review
    • Papers - Evidence b(i)ased medicine - selective reporting from studies sponsored by pharmaceutical industry review of studies in new drug applications
        
  • JAMA, Volume 289, No. 20, May 28, 2003
    • Estrogen plus Progestin and the Incidence of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Postmenopausal Women - The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study A randomized controlled trial
        
  • Neurology: Volume 60 Issue 10, May 27, 2003, 1684-1687
    • Immediate reocclusion following a successful thrombolysis in acute stroke A pilot study
    • Direct access of drugs to the human brain after intranasal drug administration?
    • Altered cerebral vasoregulation in hypertension and stroke
        
  • CMAJ: Volume 168, Issue 11, May 27, 2003
    • Non-narcotic analgesic use and the risk of hypertension
       
  • CMAJ: Volume 168, Issue 10, May 13, 2003
    • Getting it right industry sponsorship and medical research
    • The immediate psychological and occupational impact of the 2003 SARS outbreak in a teaching hospital
       
  • Neurology: Volume 60 Issue 9, May 13, 2003
    • Spinal manipulative therapy is an independent risk factor for vertebral artery dissection - pages 1424-1428
    • Editorial Vertebrobasilar dissection and cervical spine manipulation - A complex pain in the neck - pages 1408-1409
        
  • Stroke: Volume 34, Number 5, May 2003
    • Controversies in Stroke:  Blood Pressure-lowering for Secondary Prevention of Stroke:  ACE Inhibition is the Key - Craig Anderson
    • Controversies in Stroke:  Blood Pressure - Lowering for Secondary Prevention of Stroke:  ACE Inhibition is NOT the key - Philip Bath
    • Blood Pressure Reduction and ACE Inhibition in Secondary Stroke Prevention:  Mechanism Uncertain - Steve Davis and Geoff Donnan
    • Frequency of Thrombolytic Therapy in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and the Risk of In-Hospital Mortality:  The German Stroke Registers Study Group
    • Sex differences in the clinical Presentation, Resource Use and 3-Month Outcome of Acute Stroke in Europe:  Data from a Multicenter Multinational Hospital-based registry
    • Sex differences in Carotid Endarterectomy Outcomes:  Results from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry (Kapral)
    • Silent Brain Infarcts and White Matter Lesions Increase Stroke Risk in the General Population:  The Rotterdam Scan Study
    • Smoking and the risk of hemorrhagic stroke in men
    • Evaluating the Context-dependent effect of Family History of Stroke in a Genome Scan for Hypertension
    • Lipoprotein Lipase (LPL) Gene variation and progression of Carotid Artery Plaque (Spence)
    • Hypodensity of >1/3 middle cerebral artery territory versus Alberta Stroke Program early CT score (ASPECTS):  Comparison of two methods of Quantitative Evaluation of Early CT changes in Hyperacute Ischemic Stroke in the community setting
    • Aortic Stiffness is an independent predictor of fatal stroke in essential hypertension
    • Factors Influencing Outcome and Treatment Effect in PROACT II (Furlan et al)
    • Pre- and In-Hospital delays from stroke onset to intra-arterial thrombolysis
    • Pilot dose-escalation study of caffeine plus Ethanol (Caffeinol) in Acute Ischemic Stroke
    • Early Assessment of Dysphagia and Aspiration Risk in Acute Stroke Patients
    • Homocysteine and Risk of Recurrent Stroke
    • Bone Mineral Density and Stroke
    • The New York Island AVM Study:  Design, Study Progress and Initial Results
    • Conducting Stroke Research with an exception from the requirement for informed consent
        

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