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Significance Statement Although more women than men have CKD, more men develop kidney failure. Se

Scientists and policymakers have become interested in the viability of solar geoengineering as a way to manipulate the Earth’s temperature in the face of unabated global warming. This paper reports the results from a survey experiment designed to test predictions about the effects of exposure to framed messages about basic scientific research on solar geoengineering. Our findings reinforce other survey research showing that solar geoengineering is a generally unfamiliar concept, but also show ...

Significance Statement Iron supplementation and erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) are curr

Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands Nature-based solutions (NBS) provide a promising means to a climate resilient future. To guide investments in NBS, stated preference studies have become a common tool to evaluate the benefits of NBS in developing countries. Due to subsistence lifestyles and generally lower incomes, SP studies in developing countries increasingly use time payments as an alternative to the traditionally implemented money payment...

By oracknows on August 2, 2013. "Alternative medicine," so-called "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM), or, as its become fashionable to call it, "integrative medicine" is a set of medical practices that are far more based on belief than science. As my good bud and collaborator Mark Crislip so pointedly reminded us last week, CAM is far more akin to religion than science-based medicine (SBM). However, as Ive discussed more times than I can remember over the years, bot...

By Lambert Strether of Corrente As it turns out, I have narrow but deep expertise relevant to the discussion of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) paper on the Pfizer vaccine study, “Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine” (“Safety and Efficacy”), so I thought I’d weigh in, albeit a little late, on the protocols and “exclusion criteria” discussion. In a past life, several careers ago, I consulted to various large firms, among them medical publishers, on ...

The European FDA equivalent is poised to issue an statement of approval for the Pfizer candidate next Monday and the Comission states that it will subject the approval to conditional but ultrafast commercialization procedures under pressure from German authorities now seeing, not overwhelming but high hospitalization and casualty numbers. Rather than in the NEJM publication I wish that all statements by the Agency and issues are treated with the required transparency. We will see. apleb You can...