Re: Objection! (was: ...con HIV)

[Vu Huu Vinh <vu@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

Hi anh Tuan Nguyen and folks,

Thanks much for your suggestion. I hope that one day I will ask your
help. I am very bad at doing research and especially, statistic. We
clinician usually prefer clinical works but my supervisor Prof. said..."
ma`y ma` kho^ng la`m thi` kho^ng co' ba(`ng.." ha~i qua' pha?i la`m ma`
chu+a tha^'y hu+'ng thu' la('m. The^m nu+~a, to^i so+. cha(.t dda^`u
chuo^.t la('m ro^`i, tua^`n na`o cu~ng da(m ba chu', co' ba'c na`o cu~ng
thuo+`ng pha?i cha(.t dda^`u chuo^.t nhu+ to^i kho^ng?
Cheers
VH Vinh


Tuan V Nguyen wrote:
> 
> Hello anh Vinh and folks,
> 
>         Yesterday, I wrote "play with the data against your hypothesis" does
> NOT mean AGAINST your hypothesis per se; it should be read as corroborate
> your hypothesis. Any theory or proposition can and should be tested by data.
> I believe that our (Vietnamese) medical research lacks this credibility. I
> visited the faculty of medicine in 1993 and found that a lot of research
> data obtained there had not been evaluated properly.
> 
>         Nevertheless, your own clinical observation is very important.
> Remember the case of Dr McBride in the journal Lancet years ago? I suggest
> you to document (or recollect) data on AIDS and double pneumonia plus any
> other medical parameters that you deem relevant. You might consider a sort
> of case-control study (I can talk to you more on this kind of design, if you
> wish). It is not difficult nor long to analyse the data and publish the
> results (if they are interesting).
> 
>         Re the question of "whether the AIDS patient can get cancer as a
> result of AIDS?", I have asked a colleague here and he told me that there is
> weak evidence for this association, although the precise mechanism is not
> clear. You can perform a MEDLINE search to see any research has been done in
> this important area.
> 
>         Kind regards,