… Another so-called fixed combination, consisting of the herbs valerian and hops, was officially
accepted in a monograph by the German commission E because some studies have shown …

Propensity scores (PS) are an increasingly popular method to adjust for confounding in
observational studies. Propensity score methods have theoretical advantages over conventional …

Purpose To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies examining
the incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) and other outcomes in patients exposed to …

… However traditional approaches to the analysis of electronic health records rely on …
electronic health records vendors, running across the full, linked and pseudonymized electronic …

Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and
taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status and …

… All clinical and procedural data were extracted from our institutional electronic medical
record system by using relational database software (Data Discovery and Query Building; IBM, …

… When N e becomes small and sample sizes approach N e , standard coalescent theory is …
reduced to size N e was a random multinomial sample of size N e from an equilibrium …

… Treatment allocation status was e-mailed directly to the hospital clinical trials pharmacist
responsible for dispensing study medication. The participants and study staff were blinded to …

Mitochondrial physiology is disrupted in either apoptosis or necrosis. Here, we report that a
wide variety of apoptotic and necrotic stimuli induce progressive mitochondrial swelling and …

Background Establishing who is at risk from a novel rapidly arising cause of death, and why,
requires a new approach to epidemiological research with very large datasets and timely …