Articles by Ramon Fusaro

Publishing research in a journal usually archives minimal qualitative and quantitative amounts of an experimental record. Yan Sun emphasized the importance of keeping research data for future personal discoveries.1 These behaviors limit access to research data. The following experiences illustrate the societal needs for permanent institutional archiving.A report2 of ultraviolet (UV)-A protection of 18 UV-A light sensitive patients2 and a review of its unpublished study records revealed an unreco

Do Not Disregard When noteworthy past citations are not mentioned in published articles, the disregard syndrome is considered by some to be the result of inadequate literature reviews causing editorial annoyances. It also has been noted to be a serious transgression of bibliographic negligence1 and a menace to honest science.2 Its occurrence as a failure to record previous citations of discovery in the issuing of patents has important legal concerns over ownership of intellectual property

A Leprosy Research Model William R. Levis expressed the concept that leprosy is a slow-motion example of the human immune responses controlled by T-helper cells, and he proposed that the disease may be a model for investigating infectious diseases.1 Based on the historical observation that leprosy patients seem to improve clinically following blood transfusions, S.D. Lim and colleagues theorized that the clinical improvement observed was not due to the effect of increased mass of red blood c

Dave Amber1 reviewed the public's risks in genetic DNA testing and the potential need for federal oversight to ensure the accuracy and predictability of these tests to avoid erroneous preventive surgical and medical care. The added user cost to the public for this Food and Drug Administration surveillance is yet to be determined. DNA testing has become more complicated than expected in that the variations of genetic mutations are numerous. A negative DNA test for a known hereditary cancer syndro