Objective: To determine whether the adoption of the CONSORT checklist is associated with
improvement in the quality of reporting of randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Data sources: …

Background Individual trials to test effectiveness of antibiotics in children with acute otitis
media have been too small for valid subgroup analyses. We aimed to identify subgroups of …

Side populations (SP), as defined by Hoechst exclusion in flow cytometry, have been described
a few years ago. While they represent only a small fraction of the whole cell population, …

Oxygen-depleted hypoxic regions in the tumour are generally resistant to therapies 1 . Although
nanocarriers have been used to deliver drugs, the targeting ratios have been very low. …

Purpose An increasing proportion of patients (> 30%) with node-positive breast cancer will
obtain an axillary pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). If …

Background: Based on regional and anecdotal reports, there is concern that vitamin D–deficiency
rickets is persistent in Canada despite guidelines for its prevention. We sought to …

Pressure overload induces cardiac growth in the rat, which implies the hypertrophy of cardiac
muscle cells and proliferation of nonmuscle cells. The cardiac cell loss observed in parallel …

Translational regulation plays a critical role in the control of cell growth and proliferation. A
key player in translational control is eIF4E, the mRNA 5′ cap-binding protein. Aberrant …

… Anne Gaboury Robert Ladouceur Ecole de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec,
Canada GIK 7P4. … Several studies have confirmed these results (Gilovich, 1983; Henslin …

BACKGROUND Recent clinical trial data indicate that the use of angiotensin converting enzyme
(ACE) inhibitors among patients with left ventricular dysfunction results in reduced rates …