Background. In the past decade there has been an increase in the use of treatment designed
to conserve the breast for women with breast cancer. The extent to which such treatment …

Objectives: We assessed trends in use of electronic cigarettes among US adults, demographic
predictors of use, and smoking status of current electronic cigarette users. Methods: Mixed…

In an article that forms part of the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food, Andrew Cheyne and
colleagues compare soda companies' corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaigns - …

Objective To delineate the specific practices that physicians use to promote their own well-being.
Design, setting, and participants 304 members of a primary care practice-based …

OBJECTIVE: There is no safe level of secondhand tobacco-smoke exposure, and no previous
studies have explored multiunit housing as a potential contributor to secondhand tobacco-…

We analyzed the adequacy of pain control for 17 trauma patients during the initial part of
their stay in the intensive care unit, and assessed reasons for inadequate analgesia, if it …

The purpose of this study was to compare the results of the Chevron osteotomy to the DuVries'
modification of the McBride procedure using identical criteria in two groups of patients. …

The potential for transmission of deadly viral diseases to health care workers exists when
contaminated blood is inoculated through injury or when blood comes in contact with nonintact …

Background. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) instruments provide valid and responsive
outcome measures to assess the impact of disease and the response to interventions. …

Whereas fractures related to osteoporosis have become a pressing public health concern,
relatively few epidemiologic studies have focused on vertebral fractures. To shed further light …