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Challenges in Translational Research: The Views of Addiction Scientists
Objectives To explore scientists' perspectives on the challenges and pressures of translating research findings into clinical practice and public health policy. Methods... -
Preference evaluation of ground beef by untrained subjects with three levels ...
After receiving bad publicity in 2012 and being removed from many ground beef products, finely textured beef (referred to as 'pink slime' by some) is making a comeback. Some of... -
Alcohol Misuse among University Staff: A Cross-Sectional Study
OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of hazardous drinking among staff in a UK university and its association with key socio-demographic features. DESIGN: A cross-sectional... -
Trends in alcohol use among young people according to the pattern of consumpt...
Aim To identify differences in Risky Consumption (RC) and Binge drinking (BD) trends in students who already followed these patterns of alcohol consumption on starting... -
Building consensus on interactions between population health researchers and ...
Abstract Key to scientific integrity is ensuring that research findings are considered credible by scientific peers, practitioners, policymakers and the public. Industry... -
Therapeutic effects of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy on survival in pat...
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a method widely used for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); nevertheless, its effect on survival remains unclear.... -
Role of Nrf2/ARE Pathway in Protective Effect of Electroacupuncture against E...
NF-E2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a major transcription factor and acts as a key regulator of antioxidant genes to exogenous stimulations. The aim of current study was to... -
The Role of Social Media in Recruiting for Clinical Trials in Pregnancy
Background Recruitment of women in the periconceptional period to clinical studies using traditional advertising through medical establishments is difficult and slow. Given... -
The recovery rate from severe acute malnutrition among under-five years of ch...
Background Globally, Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) has been reduced by only 11% over the past 20 years and continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. So... -
The collaborative effect of scientific meetings: A study of the International...
Collaboration among scientists has a major influence on scientific progress. Such collaboration often results from scientific meetings, where scientists gather to present and... -
Beware of vested interests: Epistemic vigilance improves reasoning about scie...
In public disputes, stakeholders sometimes misrepresent statistics or other types of scientific evidence to support their claims. One of the reasons this is problematic is that... -
Relationship between Research Outcomes and Risk of Bias, Study Sponsorship, a...
Background Artificially sweetened beverage consumption has steadily increased in the last 40 years. Several reviews examining the effects of artificially sweetened beverages... -
Obtaining Fruit and Vegetables for the Lowest Prices: Pricing Survey of Diffe...
Aims Inadequate fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption is an important dietary risk factor for disease internationally. High F&V prices can be a barrier to dietary... -
Sugar industry sponsorship of germ-free rodent studies linking sucrose to hyp...
© 2017 Kearns et al. In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) secretly funded a review in the New England Journal of Medicine that discounted evidence linking sucrose... -
Comparison of two bovine serum pregnancy tests in detection of artificial ins...
Blood tests for early detection of pregnancy in cattle based on pregnancy-associated glycoproteins (PAGs) are commercially available. The objective of these studies were to... -
Using risk of bias domains to identify opportunities for improvement in food-...
PURPOSE: This retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to identify opportunities for improvement in food and nutrition research by examining risk of bias (ROB) domains.... -
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and ...
Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribute these tasks... -
Height and lung cancer risk: A meta-analysis of observational studies.
Background The association between height and lung cancer risk has been investigated by epidemiological studies but the results are inconsistent. This meta-analysis was to... -
Short-term efficacy and tolerability of venlafaxine extended release in adult...
Background Although efficacy of venlafaxine extended release (XR) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) has been reported in previous analyses in 2002 and 2004, the sample... -
What’s coming for health science and policy in 2018? Global experts look ahea...
In PLOS Medicine’s first editorial of 2018, editorial board members and other leading researchers share their hopes, pleas, concerns, and expectations for this year in health...
