Background Acute infection increases the risk of arterial cardiovascular events, but effects
on venous thromboembolic disease are less well established. Our aim was to investigate …

Probabilistic models of expected information gain require integrating prior knowledge about
causal hypotheses with knowledge about possible actions that might generate data relevant …

Objective: To investigate time trends, geographical variation, and seasonality in the incidence
of diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and temporal arteritis (TA) in the United …

Background Concern that measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination might cause autism
has led to a fall in vaccine coverage. We investigated whether MMR vaccination is associated …

Objective: To assess the effect of bezafibrate on the risk of coronary heart disease and
stroke in men with lower extremity arterial disease. Design: Double blind placebo controlled …

Background The STREAM stage 1 trial showed that a 9-month regimen for the treatment of
rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis was non-inferior to the 20-month 2011 WHO-recommended …

Background & Aims : Wide between-center variation in adenoma detection rates (ADRs)
was observed in the UK Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Screening Trial (overall, 12.1%; range, 8.6%–…

In this symposium we explore the immense potential for virtual reality to be applied in educational
settings. We discuss recent technological developments against a backdrop of several …

SARS-CoV-2 vaccines reduce the risk of COVID-19. 1–3 However, some disease-modifying
anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs), particularly glucocorticoids, methotrexate, mycophenolate …

Background We report on the validity of the computerized diagnoses of autism in a large
case-control study investigating the possible association between autism and the measles, …