Background Asthma guidelines guide health practitioners to adjust treatments to the
minimum level required for asthma control. As many people with asthma have an …

Chorioamnionitis, a potentially serious inflammatory complication of pregnancy, is
associated with the development of an inflammatory milieu within the amniotic fluid …

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It is by no means straightforward to analyse the change in the rate of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations in clinical trials. Exacerbation rates do not follow …

THE concept of using time as a diagnostic tool is familiar to all those working in primary care;
many complaints are self-limiting and will resolve without medical intervention. We are …

Editor—May I offer one further ingredient to a good death as discussed by Smith in his
editorial1—having an “amicus mortis,” a friend at death. Most items on his list of principles …

People with low vitamin C levels are found to die more often from heart disease in
observational studies, but we cannot assume that this means that the vitamin C is the cause …

What we need to know is how many patients with lung cancer (the cases) have a past history
of smoking that might have been a cause of their cancer. We can then compare this history …

EDITOR—The argument in the letter from Taylor and Ebrahim starts from the premise that
the cost of providing an anticoagulation service for patients with atrial fibrillation is 15 times …

These results from a single trial can easily be turned into a number needed to treat for one
child to benefit, or NNT (B), by taking the inverse of the risk difference of 3.8%. For one extra …