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My tool

I would post this on talk page but I'm trying to get my tool ( cited above) more widely used. I get 11 hits on pubmed and it didn't obviously come up as a mesh synonym for bc.

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 23:39, 21 December 2009 (UTC) Ruiz-Arango, AF; Sharma, GK. "Characteristics of patients with cervical spinal injury requiring permanent pacemaker implantation". Cardiology in review. 14 (4): e8–e11. doi:10.1097/01.crd.0000184453.29079.0f. PMC 10.1097/01.crd.0000184453.29079.0f. PMID 16788325. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help)[reply]

Timothy, PR. "Temporary pacemakers in critically ill patients: assessment and management strategies". AACN clinical issues. 15 (3): 305–25. PMID 15475808.

Campbell, FE; Smart, L (Jun-2003). "Effects of the paralysis tick, Ixodes holocyclus, on the electrocardiogram of the Spectacled Flying Fox, Pteropus conspicillatus". Australian veterinary journal. 81 (6): 328–31. PMID 15080451. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Van Deusen, SK; Gaeta, TJ (2003). "Treatment of hyperkalemia in a patient with unrecognized digitalis toxicity". Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology. 41 (4): 373–6. PMID 12870880.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Nürnberg, JH; Sperling, P; Lange, PE. "[A delayed life-threatening complication after uneventful varicella infection: transient complete heart block]". Klinische Pädiatrie. 214 (3): 113–6. doi:10.1055/s-2002-30145. PMC 10.1055/s-2002-30145. PMID 12015643. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help)

Hampson, NB (Jul-2001). "Outcome of patients experiencing cardiac arrest with carbon monoxide poisoning treated with hyperbaric oxygen". Annals of emergency medicine. 38 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1067/mem.2001.115532. PMC 10.1067/mem.2001.115532. PMID 11423810. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Kato, I; Sasanabe, R; Hasegawa, R; Otake, K; Banno, K; Yamakawa, H; Mizutani, N; Kobayashi, T (Jun-2001). "Effects of physiological cardiac pacing on sleep-disordered breathing in patients with chronic bradydysrhythmias". Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences. 55 (3): 257–8. PMID 11422865. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lee, MK; Kong, MH; Kim, NS; Choi, YS; Lim, SH (Dec-2000). "Comparative effects of diltiazem with enflurane or desflurane on myocardial contractility and heart rate in the isolated rat hearts". Acta anaesthesiologica Sinica. 38 (4): 173–9. PMID 11392064. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Zweiker, R; Eber, B; Schumacher, M; Fruhwald, FM; Lipp, R; Lax, S; Pristautz, H; Klein, W (Sep-1997). "Bradydysrhythmia-related presyncope secondary to pheochromocytoma". Journal of internal medicine. 242 (3): 249–53. PMID 9350170. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Assem, ES (Apr-1989). "Anaphylactic reactions affecting the human heart". Agents and actions. 27 (1–2): 142–5. PMID 2473618. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Hartley, JM (Feb-1982). "Transoesophageal cardiac pacing". Anaesthesia. 37 (2): 192–4. PMID 7081668. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Which tool is this? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:41, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is it the one described here? --RexxS (talk) 01:46, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. I actually use a local version, that one runs through 2 servers and a bunch of scripts. I have one bash script that runs locally to query pubmed and a second local java program to reformat the pubmed eutils hits. IIRC, that was the first time I generated java classes using a DTD- worked quite well as the generated code is quite uniform letting you do a lot. I think though I may regenerate or edit it for a different style. But, in any case, the online tool gets the 50 most recent pubmed hits on your serach terms ( just change the query string in the sample url). I could move it or make a web form if anyone would use it but as far as wiki things, I'm more interested in a mobile app for getting sms alerts on watched pages and on-phone note taking or authoring ( say you get stuck some where and want to do some research but don't have a laptop, just your phone. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Its a neat idea, but is getting mixed up over url, pmc & doi parameter use. The "url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7081668" type definitions would be better as just "url= |pmid=7081668" as the url parameter is used to link to full copies an article, rather than just to abstracts. Also "pmc" parameter takes just the a PubMed Central article numbers, and not duplicate doi values, as seems to be occurring in some of examples above. David Ruben Talk 02:49, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
ok, I'll try to accumulate a list of issues and fix when I can. I think I am just using whatever eutils returns in xml format to put into the wiki field that sems to make sense, but I do know I explicitly made a url from the pmid so that there was always an explccit link to abstract ( didn't know wiki made links for me ). Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 12:23, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
( bump) I was just looking at log hits and it seems no one is actually using this, just hitting the links. You can change the url query string for whatever you want to llok up and you should get the most recent 50 pubmed citations ( if more than tah, you probably don't really want all of them and need to refine a bit). Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 14:17, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Surgical retractors

Would you be willing to have external links to 27 articles on the design and action of surgical retractors with photographs and descriptions of 20 different retractors? eg http://www.wikisurgery.com/index.php?title=Retractors_11_Tissue_holding-_Littlewood These are on our website at Wikisurgery.com. We have established external links to Wikipedia in the past and have had great interest from wikipedia users. I hope I have not transgressed any rules with this approach. Michael Harpur Edwards (talk)Michael Harpur Edwards (talk) 17:30, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for asking here: we encourage making an approach as you have. My first thought was no, because of our policy on external links, section Links normally to be avoided: "Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article". Having taken a good look at the site, I would ask the question "Could the material be incorporated into Wikipedia?". The answer is unclear to me, since the text on the WikiSurgery site is apparently "available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License", but the page on copyrights is empty. In addition, there is no copyright information for the images, although TinEye doesn't find them elsewhere. On the other hand, I can see value in the Wikisurgery site, so I would be tempted to agree with making links from our articles, as long as we can be sure we're not linking to a website containing copyright violations. Until we can verify the copyright terms of the text and images on WikiSurgery, I'd suggest we should wait before adding these as external links. --RexxS (talk) 19:20, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I can't imagine any single article benefiting from 27 separate links. WhatamIdoing (talk) 21:36, 2 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much for your comprehansive replies. I wrote all the text and made all the images. I hold the copyright for all of them and all the other text and images on the basic surgical skills program on wikisurgery. Will that be enough or would you prefer more formal evidence? About the 27 articles, a single link to the introductory article (http://www.wikisurgery.com/index.php?title=Retractors_04_Introduction) would lead the wikipedia user to all the others.Michael Harpur Edwards (talk)Michael Harpur Edwards (talk) 17:35, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I am no copyright expert, but I don't understand how you could "hold" the copyright to all of that content given this statement (and no apparent exceptions for the content in question) that it's under the GNU FDL. Based on the that copyleft provision, portions of wikisurgery could be copied to wikipedia as long as there is attribution, couldn't they? That might lead to more legible content on WP than a bunch of links. -- Scray (talk) 02:13, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The reason that Michael Harpur Edwards can claim to hold the copyrights at present is that he appears to be the only contributor (so far) on WikiSurgery, as a quick look at a few page histories shows (assuming that 'Michael edwards' and 'M h edwards' are synonymous). I doubt that content imported from there would pass WP:SPS, so if we felt that the images were useful, then an external link would really be the best solution. I'm leaning toward accepting MHE's word that we would not linking to copyvios, and recommending that we encourage inserting the external link(s). --RexxS (talk) 05:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
May I take it from your discussions that you would be happy for me to insert an external link from Wikisurgery to the Wikipedia article on Retractors (Medical)? Please look at this article Retractor (medical) to check the link is OK with you? Michael Harpur Edwards (talk) 12:35, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Not everyone is going to agree 100% of the time, but the test is always "Does it improve the article?". In my very humble opinion, your external link improves that article. Thanks for taking the time to discuss this beforehand. --RexxS (talk) 17:02, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Magnet therapy

It appears that a fast acting SPA is totally rewriting the article using primary research and slurring the distinction between unproven alternative medicine usage and proven mainstream usage. See the thread here:

Brangifer (talk) 17:04, 3 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't remember if this topic was regarding DC fields ( IIRC the bone things were static currents, not sure about magnet stuff), but here is an interesting result,

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20061638 of course cancer and stimulation are not mutually exclusive. In the absence of good causal arguments, you will get all kinds of confusing results because you can't control all the ( unknown ) variables and have to hope they just cancel out in larger placebo controlled trials. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 12:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

Can someone confirm that Naegeli–Franceschetti–Jadassohn syndrome is spelled correctly? I have a source that uses "Fransceschetti." Thanks in advance! ---kilbad (talk) 01:27, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Naegeli–Franceschetti–Jadassohn" is correct. Axl ¤ [Talk] 17:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The existing spelling certainly matches this paper and this ORD page -- which, BTW, suggests the shorter "Naegeli syndrome" as a title. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:59, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is the guy you want (Adolphe Franceschetti): http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1391.html --RexxS (talk) 18:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PMID Full Articles

My partner and I have been working on the article Hypertrichosis, it is currently a nominee for GA but there are missing pieces of information that we need in order to bring this article to GA. I was wondering if someone would be able to access PMID articles PMID 19658203, PMID 12444804, and PMID 18340416, My email address is timhallstr@gmail.com VanceMiller, who is also working on this article, can be reached through vancemiller@gmail.com.--TimHAllstr (talk) 15:53, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If it's any help for anybody searching:
Female adolescent hair disorders - PMID 19658203 = doi:10.1016/j.jpag.2009.03.007 (I can't find a free full text).
Causes and management of hypertrichosis - PMID 19658203 (I can't find a free full text).
Hypertrichose (in German) - PMID 18340416 = doi:10.1007/s00105-008-1489-z (I can't find a free full text).
If nobody here can help, you can always try making a request at WP:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request. There are also some editors there who are amenable to direct contact (particularly for the German article). Hope that helps --RexxS (talk) 17:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Warburg's Tincture

Hi. I recently created and originated an article on Wikipedia about Warburg's Tincture. I'm writing here to enquire if the article should added to the Medicine WikiProject? I feel Warburg's Tincture is important in the history of medicine.--Roland Sparkes (talk) 18:11, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is directly related to medicine, if you feel the same way, be bold and add the WP:MED banner on the discussion page without consulting anyone. Chances are, you will be correct. If you are not, it will be corrected with no strike against you. Tyrol5 [Talk] 18:19, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
 Done WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:24, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I also made a few changes to the formatting; you might like to look them over and copy the style. Also, WP:MEDMOS#Drugs might interest you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:32, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have expanded and improved this article a lot more now. Please can the article quality rating be reviewed. Thanks--Roland Sparkes (talk) 10:22, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Apostrophe s ...

Is there a consensus or guideline on how to name/list disease articles in which the name of the condition may or may not contain an " 's "? For example, should the article be found at Darier's disease or Darier disease? Thanks in advance for your response. ---kilbad (talk) 00:38, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The rule is that there is no rule.
One proposed (but not widely accepted) system is that you use the possessive if the condition is named after a patient, but not if it is named after someone else. Thus ALS would be "Lou Gehrig's disease", but Trisomy 21 would be "Down syndrome".
In general, we follow the sources, and, failing that, we use whatever the first significant Wikipedia author used. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Been much debated in past. In essence whilst there was a suggestion to drop the "'s", this has not been universally accepted, and certainly older publications will have used "'s". It depends also what is currently in greatest usage and to some extent is whatever the article starts with (akin to AmE vs BrE). We currently have Parkinson's disease but Down syndrome (but while modern papers on topic may have dropped the "'s", most patients and doctors here in UK would I think still include it - eg UK support Group is http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/ and 2008 Times article[1] ).
As List of eponymous diseases#Punctuation notes "Medical journals, dictionaries and style guides remain divided on this issue." which is probably the only thing anyone can agree upon. Past discussion links include:
For example you give, the ICD9/10 links fail really to give name (preferring Darier–White disease), the US based MESH, OMIM and eMedicine use Darier Disease, likewise the see-also section's DermNet NZ link does not include an "'s". That said, the article currently uses "'s", and I'm not sure worth switching over (a redirect is easy) per WP:POINT. David Ruben Talk 05:06, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Move requested

Would someone consider moving Cherry hemangioma to Cherry angioma (or to any of the other diease synonyms: De Morgan spot, Senile angioma). I think the term angioma should be used, not hemangioma. Perhaps the term cherry hemangioma should not even have an article/redirect? ---kilbad (talk) 18:34, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moved. I don't see harm from a redirect. Rich Farmbrough, 00:56, 8 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Not moved, better speak to user:Arcadian who did the reverse move in the first place. Rich Farmbrough, 00:57, 8 January 2010 (UTC).[reply]
Both terms are used (see eMedicine, which uses "Cherry hemangioma"), and hemangioma (tumor of blood vessels) is more precise than angioma (tumor of vessels, which also includes lymphangioma, or tumor of lymph vessels). (Tumors are not necessarily neoplastic: see the med.utah.edu link at Talk:Tumor) --Arcadian (talk) 09:13, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
But which term is more commonly used? If you look at the actual sources cited by e-medicine, all use angioma, not hemangioma (except when referring to a cavernous hemangioma (a separate condition)). Additionally, bolognia, fitzpatrick, Andrews, medline plus, DiseasesDB, and Rooks all use angioma. Searching pubmed with "cherry angioma" gives 10 results, while "cherry hemangioma," gives 4. All that to say, would you consider having th article under cherry angioma, with a redirect from cherry hemangioma? ---kilbad (talk) 14:14, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, someone asked for my input here but I don't have anything meaningful to say :) I would just resort to same approaches, seeing which terms are more common and trying to determine if they are in fact exact synonyms etc. Do you want the references from pubmed in wiki format? My online tool should work given the small number, just change the query string to the urlencoded version of your search terms. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 14:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding senile keratosis

Does the term senile keratosis refer to actinic keratosis or seborrheic keratosis? ---kilbad (talk) 18:41, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Senile keratosis is not a term that I'm particularly aware of. According to Weedon's Skin Pathology (3rd Ed), Seb K may also be known as senile wart, amongst other things, so this could be a candidate. I call actinic keratosis solar keratosis, and these do appear most often on the sun -exposed skin of older people, but they can also occur in younger solarium users. The two are obviously quite different and if I was going to use the term senile keratosis, I'd be more likely to apply it to a benign condition than a premalignant one. Cheers, Mattopaedia Have a yarn 04:31, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I am changing the redirect, based on your feedback and Bolognia, to senile keratosis --> actinic keratosis. ---kilbad (talk) 21:35, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Mononucleosis

Mononucleosis is on the current list of disambiguation pages with the most incoming links. But it is a hybrid dab page / article. Should it be a dab page, or should it be an article? --Una Smith (talk) 04:29, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'd rather see mononucleosis redirect to the EBV article, with a "Mononucleosis redirects here. For the form caused by the cytomegalovirus, see CMV infectious mononucleosis.", merely because EBV is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear mononucleosis. Others may feel differently, however. Regards, --—Cyclonenim | Chat  10:01, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Research studies on alternative medicine

This article concerns a groups of medical techniques promoted by the Transcendental Meditation movement and it includes Maharishi Ayurveda, pulse diagnosis, sound and light therapies, Feng Shui-like architectural guidelines, etc. Scores of studies conducted by members and associates of the movement showing the efficacy of these treatments have been published in peer-reviewed journals. However few of those studies have been included in reviews or meta-analyses. Many of the studies are over ten years old and very few were conducted under randomized conditions. In some cases they what may be regarded as exceptional claims, such as that the direction one's front door faces has a major impact on health. There is currently an argument on the article talk page over the applicability of WP:MEDRS to the cited studies. If anyone can offer helpful advice, either here or on the article talk page that'd be appreciated. The current threads there are Talk:Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health#Reliable sources (medicine-related articles) and Talk:Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health#MEDRS example.   Will Beback  talk  00:36, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Offhand, this sounds like probably post hoc analysis. When discussing DNDN earlier clinical trials this came up a lot. If you set a limit, say p=.05, to say that the treatment is not doing nothing, you will have some successes by chance. If you do enough trials or measure enough things, something will work. This is why I said earlier that the most militant scientists want causal, not statistical arguments since presumably each cause can be tested more easily. So, assuming it really doesn't work, this is the objection I'd be looking for in rleiable critical analyses. There may be others, or maybe it is considered to silly for anyone to refute. But, if you want to make a merit argument that would be the approach: pre-specified endpoints being routinely hit. Pre-specificed is not sacred, but it makes it harder to cherry pick results. I think there are classic examples of sub group analyses showing drug effects based on astrological sign. AFAIK none of these was reproducible but that doesn't matter with statistics. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 01:35, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that helps. So far as I can tell, every single study has had positive results, which seems like another indication that the studies were intended to achieve a certain result.   Will Beback  talk  03:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
One key issue that's in dispute is whether studies published in peer-reviewed journals are primary or secondary sources.   Will Beback  talk  07:04, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Help requested at XMRV if anyone is interested. XMRV is a recently-discovered retrovirus reported in October to have ties to chronic fatigue syndrome. A new study disputes this tie, setting off an internet battle that's unfortunately reached Wikipedia. I've tried to put my foot down re: talk page guidelines and sourcing requirements, but I'm under no illusions as to my effectiveness and stamina, and help would be greatly appreciated. Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 17:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Forbes blasts chelation therapy

Forbes magazine has posted an excellent article about the misuse of chelation therapy to treat coronary artery disease and autism:

Quotes:

  • "Chelation is the unproven cure-all that will never die."
  • "The American College of Medical Toxicology last summer put out a stern warning about the challenge tests that doctors use to justify chelation on people like Stemp. They test a patient's urine for metals, give a chelating agent, then test the urine again to see if it has more metal. Since everyone has some level of mercury in his blood, it's easy to show what looks like a dramatic problem. "Chelating agents have been found to mobilize metals in healthy individuals," said the statement. The test "has no demonstrated benefit."
  • "But chelating arteries has never been shown to work in trials. In 1989 the Food & Drug Administration included chelation on its list of Top Ten Health Frauds. A 2002 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared heart patients who'd been given twice-a-week chelation infusions with those who'd been given a placebo...."
  • "A 2008 article in the Medscape Journal of Medicine called the heart trial "unethical, dangerous, pointless and wasteful."

There are other interesting quotes and references to the literature (which can be found and cited). This article would be a good source to use in the article, but this happens to be one area of alternative medicine where a specialist is needed. There are plenty of MDs here, and it would be appreciated if someone took a look at this. -- Brangifer (talk) 07:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Book:Prostate

I've just created this book, but I'm not prostate expert. So if someone could quickly check if I haven't forgotten something, that would be great. Thanks. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brainstorming

I would like to have a list of dermatologists after which a cutaneous condition has been named. Restated, if a condition has been named after someone, that person is included in the list. I think this would be a nice reference for people. Do you think this would be ok? If so, what would you name the list? ---kilbad (talk) 21:39, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To answer a question you didn't ask, "how would you generate this list?" I would attempt to use some pubmed scripts to look at derma abstracts and find uncommon words, pref capitalized terms not starting sentences. Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 21:44, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I will get most of them from the list of cutaneous conditions which is probably six months from being near comprehensive for cutaneous condition names/synonyms. But what should the list be titled? ---kilbad (talk) 21:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
[[List of eponymous cutaneous conditions]], or [[List of skin-related medical conditions named for a person]] if you want it to be intelligible to students and English-language learners. WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:36, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Are you thinking of something like WhoNamedIt.com Eponyms in category: Skin - dermatology? You know, when it has been done already, and better than one could possibly imagine achieving here, it seems a bit pointless to repeat the exercise. More useful IMO would be to write short encyclopaedic articles about these physicians than to just list them.

Category:Telehealth

I discovered a new category, Category:Telehealth, and was unsure whether it is a good idea ... so I listed it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 January 10#Category:Telehealth. Your contributions to the discussion would be welcome. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:15, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]


Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Started Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, help is welcomed. Cheers, --CopperKettle 18:05, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for working on that - it looks good (and as recently described entity, there may not be much more to add for now). MastCell Talk 18:14, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
here are the citations for 20 most recent pubmed hits that mention nmda and encephalitis,

Poloni, C; Ricotti, V; King, MD; Perez, ER; Mayor-Dubois, C; Haenggeli, CA; Deonna, T (23-Dec-2009). "Severe childhood encephalopathy with dyskinesia and prolonged cognitive disturbances: evidence for anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor encephalitis". Developmental medicine and child neurology: -. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03542.x. PMC 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03542.x. PMID 20041934. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Graus, F; Dalmau, J (25-Dec-2009). "Antibodies and neuronal autoimmune disorders of the CNS". Journal of neurology: -. doi:10.1007/s00415-009-5431-9. PMC 10.1007/s00415-009-5431-9. PMID 20035430. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Iizuka, T (Nov-2009). "[Unique clinical features and pathophysiology of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis]". Rinshō shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology. 49 (11): 774–8. PMID 20030207. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Zandi, MS; Follows, G; Moody, AM; Molyneux, P; Vincent, A (8-Dec-2009). "Limbic encephalitis associated with antibodies to the NMDA receptor in Hodgkin lymphoma". Neurology. 73 (23): 2039–40. doi:10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c55e9b. PMC 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181c55e9b. PMID 19996080. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

de Broucker, T (24-Nov-2009). "[Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis.]". Medecine et maladies infectieuses: -. doi:10.1016/j.medmal.2009.10.013. PMC 10.1016/j.medmal.2009.10.013. PMID 19942390. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lebas, A; Didelot, A; Honnorat, J; Tardieu, M (15-Oct-2009). "Expanding Spectrum of Encephalitis With NMDA Receptor Antibodies in Young Children". Journal of child neurology: -. doi:10.1177/0883073809343319. PMC 10.1177/0883073809343319. PMID 19833974. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Masuda, T; Ishibashi, M; Ito, M; Takahashi, Y; Kumamoto, T (Aug-2009). "[Case of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease associated with non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis with autoantibodies against glutamate receptor epsilon2 in the cerebrospinal fluid]". Rinshō shinkeigaku = Clinical neurology. 49 (8): 483–7. PMID 19827598. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Parratt, KL; Lewis, SJ; Dalmau, J; Halmagyi, GM; Spies, JM (7-Sep-2009). "Acute psychiatric illness in a young woman: an unusual form of encephalitis". The Medical journal of Australia. 191 (5): 284–6. PMID 19740054. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Bayreuther, C; Dellamonica, J; Borg, M; Bernardin, G; Thomas, P (Sep-2009). "Complex partial status epilepticus revealing anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis". Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape. 11 (3): 261–5. doi:10.1684/epd.2009.0266. PMC 10.1684/epd.2009.0266. PMID 19736168. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Gable, MS; Radner, A; Tilley, DH; Lee, B; Dyner, L; Collins, A; Dengel, A; Dalmau, J; Glaser, CA (29-Aug-2009). "Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: report of ten cases and comparison with viral encephalitis". European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology: -. doi:10.1007/s10096-009-0799-0. PMC 10.1007/s10096-009-0799-0. PMID 19718525. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Labate, A; Vincent, A; Gambardella, A; Piane, EL; Cianci, V; Aguglia, U (Sep-2009). "Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: a video case report". Epileptic disorders : international epilepsy journal with videotape. 11 (3): 267–9. doi:10.1684/epd.2009.0268. PMC 10.1684/epd.2009.0268. PMID 19713171. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Splinter, WM (Sep-2009). "Anti-NMDA receptor antibodies encephalitis". Paediatric anaesthesia. 19 (9): 911–3. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03085.x. PMC 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2009.03085.x. PMID 19691699. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Tüzün, E; Baehring, JM; Bannykh, S; Rosenfeld, MR; Dalmau, J (14-Aug-2009). "Evidence for antibody-mediated pathogenesis in anti-NMDAR encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma". Acta neuropathologica: -. doi:10.1007/s00401-009-0582-4. PMC 10.1007/s00401-009-0582-4. PMID 19680671. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Ichiyama, T; Matsushige, T; Kajimoto, M; Fukunaga, S; Furukawa, S (Nov-2009). "Serum matrix metalloproteinase-9 and tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 levels in non-herpetic acute limbic encephalitis". Journal of neurology. 256 (11): 1846–50. doi:10.1007/s00415-009-5207-2. PMC 10.1007/s00415-009-5207-2. PMID 19672673. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Florance, NR; Lam, C; Szperka, C; Zhou, L; Ahmad, S; Campen, CJ; Moss, H; Peter, N; Gleichman, AJ; Glaser, CA; Lynch, DR; Rosenfeld, MR; Dalmau, J (Jul-2009). "Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis in children and adolescents". Annals of neurology. 66 (1): 11–8. doi:10.1002/ana.21756. PMC 10.1002/ana.21756. PMID 19670433. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

De Nayer, AR; Sindic, CJ (15-Sep-2009). "A subacute behavioral disorder in a female adolescent. Autoimmune anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis associated with ovarian teratoma". Biological psychiatry. 66 (6): e13-4. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.04.031. PMC 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.04.031. PMID 19539270. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Iizuka, T (Mar-2009). "[Anti-NMDA receptor antibody-mediated encephalitis/encephalopathy]". Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology. 57 (3): 252–61. PMID 19363996. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Sakuma, H (Aug-2009). "Acute encephalitis with refractory, repetitive partial seizures". Brain & development. 31 (7): 510–4. doi:10.1016/j.braindev.2009.02.010. PMC 10.1016/j.braindev.2009.02.010. PMID 19327924. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Sas, AR; Smothers, CT; Woodward, J; Tyor, WR (25-Mar-2009). "Interferon-alpha causes neuronal dysfunction in encephalitis". The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 29 (12): 3948–55. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5595-08.2009. PMC 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5595-08.2009. PMID 19321791. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Kataoka, H; Taoka, T; Ueno, S (15-Apr-2009). "Reduced N-acetylaspartate in the basal ganglia of a patient with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis". Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society. 24 (5): 784–6. doi:10.1002/mds.22167. PMC 10.1002/mds.22167. PMID 19217070. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 19:11, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Colitis-X

Colitis-X is a new article nominated for DYK, written by an editor who does not usually write medical articles. I have given it a twice over but it needs more. One important issue remaining is that some of the sources are case reports. Are there no review articles? --Una Smith (talk) 07:03, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ouch. I have been warned to clear out or I will be blocked. [2][3][4] --Una Smith (talk) 03:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cephalalgia free online until 31st March 2010

Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society, has moved to SAGE Publications and the entire archive from 1981 - today is free full text online until 31st March 2010. http://cep.sagepub.com/ --Friedrich K. (talk) 14:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Red yeast rice and 'statin' drugs

An editor has been doing quite a bit of work on revamping the red yeast rice article. I don't know enough about this subject to do much about it, but would like to see more eyes on the situation. It is especially the editor's COI that concerns me. He uses some red flag terminology (implying scientific evidence for alternative medicine, which would make it mainstream and no longer "alternative"). Here are some links to read:

"Evidence-based science in support of complementary and alternative medicine, with focus on dietary supplements and functional foods. PhD in nutritional biochemistry; 25 years working in industry; currently a science consultant to companies wanting to make health claims for their products."

Note that I'm not implying any wrongdoing or bad faith on the part of this editor, just concerns that the article might be skewed in a way that promotes alternative medicine in an improper manner. Please take a look at the formatting, content, and especially references in light of WP:MEDRS, WP:Fringe and WP:Weight. -- Brangifer (talk) 01:57, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Here are the 20 most recent pubmed cites that mention both terms, I'd put it on talk page but trying to get people to use my tool for this. You can copy or move these to talk page and discuss each for inclusion or balance of prominence etc.

Tsai, RL; Pan, TM (17-Dec-2009). "Red Mold Rice Mitigates Oral Carcinogenesis in 7,12-Dimethyl-1,2-Benz[a]anthracene-induced Oral Carcinogenesis in Hamster". Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM: -. doi:10.1093/ecam/nep215. PMC 10.1093/ecam/nep215. PMID 20019075. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Gao, X; Pashkov, I; Sawaya, MR; Laidman, J; Zhang, W; Cacho, R; Yeates, TO; Tang, Y (30-Oct-2009). "Directed evolution and structural characterization of a simvastatin synthase". Chemistry & biology. 16 (10): 1064–74. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.09.017. PMC 10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.09.017. PMID 19875080. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Barrios-González, J (10-Oct-2009). "Biotechnological production and applications of statins". Applied microbiology and biotechnology: -. doi:10.1007/s00253-009-2239-6. PMC 10.1007/s00253-009-2239-6. PMID 19820926. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Sakai, K; Nihira, T (Dec-2009). "Identification of mokB involved in monacolin K biosynthesis in Monascus pilosus". Biotechnology letters. 31 (12): 1911–6. doi:10.1007/s10529-009-0093-3. PMC 10.1007/s10529-009-0093-3. PMID 19693441. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Klimek, M; Ogunkanmi, A (Jun-2009). "Safety and Efficacy of Red Yeast Rice (Monascus purpureus) as an Alternative Therapy for Hyperlipidemia". P & T : a peer-reviewed journal for formulary management. 34 (6): 313–27. PMID 19572049. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xie, X; Xu, W; Dorrestein, PC; Tang, Y (24-Jun-2009). "Acyltransferase mediated polyketide release from a fungal megasynthase". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131 (24): 8388–9. doi:10.1021/ja903203g. PMC 10.1021/ja903203g. PMID 19530726. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Grieco, A; Pompili, M; Biolato, M; Vecchio, FM; Grattagliano, I; Gasbarrini, G (Jun-2009). "Acute hepatitis caused by a natural lipid-lowering product: when "alternative" medicine is no "alternative" at all". Journal of hepatology. 50 (6): 1273–7. doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2009.02.021. PMC 10.1016/j.jhep.2009.02.021. PMID 19398239. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Hong, MY; Zhang, Y; Heber, D (Dec-2008). "Chinese red yeast rice versus lovastatin effects on prostate cancer cells with and without androgen receptor overexpression". Journal of medicinal food. 11 (4): 657–66. doi:10.1089/jmf.2007.0702. PMC 10.1089/jmf.2007.0702. PMID 19053857. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xie, X; Gao, X; Guerrero, JL; Yeates, TO; Tang, Y (1-Jan-2009). "Rational improvement of simvastatin synthase solubility in Escherichia coli leads to higher whole-cell biocatalytic activity". Biotechnology and bioengineering. 102 (1): 20–8. doi:10.1002/bit.22028. PMC 10.1002/bit.22028. PMID 18988191. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Yang, Z (Mar-2008). "[Biosynthesis of simvastatin--a mini-review]". Sheng wu gong cheng xue bao = Chinese journal of biotechnology. 24 (3): 349–54. PMID 18589807. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Chen, YP; Liaw, LL; Wang, CL; Chen, IC; Wu, WJ; Wu, MD; Yuan, GF (23-Jul-2008). "Cloning and characterization of monacolin K biosynthetic gene cluster from Monascus pilosus". Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 56 (14): 5639–46. doi:10.1021/jf800595k. PMC 10.1021/jf800595k. PMID 18578535. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lee, CL; Pan, TM (Jul-2008). "Red mold rice extract represses amyloid beta peptide-induced neurotoxicity via potent synergism of anti-inflammatory and antioxidative effect". Applied microbiology and biotechnology. 79 (5): 829–41. doi:10.1007/s00253-008-1480-8. PMC 10.1007/s00253-008-1480-8. PMID 18438657. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lee, CL; Wang, JJ; Pan, TM (26-Dec-2007). "A simple and rapid approach for removing citrinin while retaining monacolin K in red mold rice". Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 55 (26): 11101–8. doi:10.1021/jf071640p. PMC 10.1021/jf071640p. PMID 18047280. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Wang, TH (2007). "Monascus rice products". Advances in food and nutrition research. 53: 123–59. doi:10.1016/S1043-4526(07)53004-4. PMC 10.1016/S1043-4526(07)53004-4. PMID 17900498. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Suh, SH; Mah, JH; Lee, W; Byun, MW; Hwang, HJ (Sep-2007). "Optimization of production of monacolin K from gamma-irradiated Monascus mutant by use of response surface methodology". Journal of medicinal food. 10 (3): 408–15. doi:10.1089/jmf.2006.097. PMC 10.1089/jmf.2006.097. PMID 17887933. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Hong, MY; Zhang, Y; Heber, D (Jul-2008). "Anticancer effects of Chinese red yeast rice versus monacolin K alone on colon cancer cells". The Journal of nutritional biochemistry. 19 (7): 448–58. doi:10.1016/j.jnutbio.2007.05.012. PMC 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2007.05.012. PMID 17869085. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lee, CL; Wang, JJ; Pan, TM (22-Aug-2007). "Red mold dioscorea has greater hypolipidemic and antiatherosclerotic effect than traditional red mold rice and unfermented dioscorea in hamsters". Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 55 (17): 7162–9. doi:10.1021/jf071293j. PMC 10.1021/jf071293j. PMID 17655247. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Lee, CL; Wang, JJ; Pan, TM (8-Aug-2007). "Improving the ratio of monacolin K to citrinin production of Monascus purpureus NTU 568 under dioscorea medium through the mediation of pH value and ethanol addition". Journal of agricultural and food chemistry. 55 (16): 6493–502. doi:10.1021/jf0711946. PMC 10.1021/jf0711946. PMID 17636932. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xie, X; Tang, Y (Jul-2007). "Improving simvastatin bioconversion in Escherichia coli by deletion of bioH". Metabolic engineering. 9 (4): 379–86. doi:10.1016/j.ymben.2007.05.006. PMC 10.1016/j.ymben.2007.05.006. PMID 17625941. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

Xie, X (Apr-2007). "Efficient synthesis of simvastatin by use of whole-cell biocatalysis". Applied and environmental microbiology. 73 (7): 2054–60. doi:10.1128/AEM.02820-06. PMC 10.1128/AEM.02820-06. PMID 17277201. {{cite journal}}: Check |pmc= value (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)


Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 02:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Weight loss

..needs a few eyes. It has accumulated vandalcruft and spam. Now semi-protected for a while.LeadSongDog come howl 05:12, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Surgery task force

I proposed the surgery task force here. I thought that I might bring it up here to stir up some interest. Surgery is a vast branch of medicine that requires comprehensive coverage on Wikipedia. If interested, add your self to the list here. Thanks. Tyrol5 [Talk] 01:18, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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