Statins, fibrates, and melanoma risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Large randomized, controlled clinical trials of lovastatin and gemfibrozil for heart disease prevention have reported statistically significantly lower melanoma incidences in persons receiving these medications. Results of in vitro animal model and human case-control studies also suggest that statins and fibrates may reduce the risk of melanoma.

Methods: We performed a systematic review of trials that randomly assigned participants to receive statins or fibrates versus an alternative therapy for a minimum of 6 months.

Uniform resource locator decay in dermatology journals: author attitudes and preservation practices.

Objectives: To describe dermatology journal uniform resource locator (URL) use and persistence and to better understand the level of control and awareness of authors regarding the availability of the URLs they cite.

Design: Software was written to automatically access URLs in articles published between January 1, 1999, and September 30, 2004, in the 3 dermatology journals with the highest scientific impact. Authors of publications with unavailable URLs were surveyed regarding URL content, availability, and preservation.

Dermatology Internet Yellow Page advertising.

Background: Patients may use Internet Yellow Pages to help select a physician.

Objective: We sought to describe dermatology Internet Yellow Page advertising.

Methods: Dermatology advertisements in Colorado, California, New York, and Texas at 3 Yellow Page World Wide Web sites were systematically examined.

Indoor tanning attitudes and practices of US dermatologists compared with other medical specialists.

Objective: To compare the indoor tanning attitudes and practices of dermatologists with physicians in other medical specialties (internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine) commonly providing sun safety counseling to patients.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Questionnaire mailed to randomly selected US dermatologists, internists, family practitioners, and pediatricians.

What dermatologists do not know about smallpox vaccination: results from a worldwide electronic survey.

The risk of a bioterrorist attack with smallpox has increased owing to breakthroughs in the de novo synthesis of long-chain DNA molecules. Although the leading roles of dermatologists in diagnosing recent outbreaks of cutaneous anthrax and monkeypox demonstrate the importance of dermatologist preparedness for bioterrorism, dermatologist knowledge regarding smallpox vaccination has not been extensively examined. We conducted a cross-sectional worldwide electronic survey of all members of the American Academy of Dermatology with available e-mail addresses.

Compliance with youth access regulations for indoor UV tanning.

Objectives: To describe youth access to indoor UV tanning and youth discount pricing incentives in 4 states with different age restrictions: Colorado (no age restrictions), Texas (age 13 years), Illinois (age 14 years), and Wisconsin (age 16 years).

Design: Cross-sectional telephone survey conducted in October 2003 using a standardized script to assess the practices of randomly selected UV tanning operators.

Participants: Randomly selected licensed indoor UV tanning facility operators in Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

A case for informed consent? Indoor UV tanning facility operator's provision of health risks information (United States).

Objective: Indoor UV tanning is associated with skin cancer. This study describes consumer health risks information provided by indoor UV tanning facility operators in four states (Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and Wisconsin) with varying operator training, regulations, enforcement and penalties.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional survey study design, 100 randomly selected licensed indoor UV tanning facilities from each state were surveyed anonymously by telephone.

Avoiding URL reference degradation in scientific publications.

Arguments are presented concerning the deposit of Internet-based information into the Internet Archive, a digital library of Internet sites and other digital data

Information science. Going, going, gone: lost Internet references.

The use of Internet references in academic literature is common, and Internet references are frequently inaccessible. The extent of Internet referencing and Internet reference activity in medical or scientific publications was systematically examined in more than 1000 articles published between 2000 and 2003 in the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Science. Internet references accounted for 2.