Hot Papers In Medicine, Ranked By Citations Received In November And December 1996 Hot Papers In Biology, Ranked By Citations Received In November And December 1996 Editor's Note: Throughout the year, the newsletter Science Watch, published by the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, publishes lists of 10 research papers in biology and medicine that are the most cited at the time of publication. These rankings provide a glimpse of current trends in research. The most recent art

Health As Hot Research Areas Editor's Note: Throughout the year, the newsletter Science Watch, published by the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, lists the 10 currently most cited research papers in biology and medicine. The lists provide a glimpse of recent trends in basic and applied biomedical science. The following article discussing biology's hot papers (Science Watch, 7[1]:8, 1996), by Jeremy Cherfas, a science writer who works with the Biological Sciences Research Co

Patients recovering from an operation will often find themselves given elasticated stockings to wear and injections of subcutaneous heparin to undergo. These are ways of trying to prevent clots forming in the deep veins of the legs. Pulmonary thromboembolism caused by the migration of such clots remains a potentially fatal complication of surgery. Cancer can put patients at risk of venous thrombosis, but all too often, even when there is a family history of this condition, laboratory tests thro