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Evidence-based librarianship drives initiatives and priorities in today's research centers. To evaluate the effectiveness of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library's Editing Service, librarians conducted a pilot study comparing edited manuscripts with the published versions. Using a random number generator, five published journal articles were chosen for evaluation from a pool of NIH manuscripts (n -- 147) edited between January 2008 and February 2012. A rubric delineating categories of frequently checked writing elements was used to facilitate quantitative analysis. Findings showed that 84 percent of editors' suggestions were accepted for three of the published papers that ivere submitted to the originally intended journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'A whole new world': using new technologies to develop women's leadership in Kyrgyzstan by Joanna Hoare In the areas of both new technology and leadership, women everywhere tend to be under-represented. In this piece, we hear about an innovative programme in Bishkek, capital of the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, which combined these fields, developing women's skills, and enhancing community development in the process. To help Haiti, upend aid habits, and focus on its women by Elaine Zuckerman On 12 January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, killing tens of thousands of people. Those who survived are now struggling to rebuild their lives and their country. In this blog piece, originally posted in February 2010 on the website of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Elaine Zuckerman argues that it is imperative for Haiti that its women are directly involved in the reconstruction process. The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference and beyond: an interview with Celeste McKay December 2009 saw the holding of the long-awaited United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen - officially, the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - where government delegates sought to reach agreement on new measures to combat climate change post-2012, building on the Kyoto Protocol. G&D wanted to know about how strongly the issue of gender featured in the talks, so we asked Canadian environmental activist and campaigner Celeste McKay, who attended the Climate Change Conference, to give us her impressions, and to tell us more about her work with the Native Women's Association of Canada. Where is the money for women's rights? 2009 research highlights and reflections by Sarah Rosenhek and Cindy Clark Without adequate funding, effective work on women's rights becomes impossible. Over the past few years, The Association for Women's Rights in Development has been conducting research into the funding environment in which women's rights organisations are currently operating, and here, they share their findings with us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fourteen percent cases in a relapsing polychondritis (RP) cohort can be classified as MAGIC syndrome. Patients with MAGIC syndrome have higher likelihood of having clinical features of Behcet's disease (BD). Patients with MAGIC syndrome have features unique to both RP and BD, including aortitis, Raynaud's phenomena and elevated anti-collagen II antibodies. Fulfillment of either McAdam's or Damiani's Criteria for RP plus the International Criteria for Behçet's Disease have excellent sensitivity to classify MAGIC syndrome. Mouth and genital ulcers with inflamed cartilage (MAGIC) syndrome is characterized by overlapping features of relapsing polychondritis (RP) and Behcet's disease (BD). To date, no studies have defined the clinical spectrum of disease in a cohort of patients with MAGIC syndrome. Adult patients within an ongoing prospective, observational cohort study in RP were clinically assessed for MAGIC syndrome. A systematic review was conducted to identify additional cases of MAGIC syndrome by searching four databases: PubMed (US National Library of Medicine), Embase (Elsevier), Scopus (Elsevier) and Web of Science: Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics). The inclusion criteria used were: [1] patients of any age or gender who were diagnosed with MAGIC syndrome, or both RP and BD; [2] case report or case series study; [3] published from 1985 – July 2020; and [4] in English language. Risk of bias was assessed using a checklist developed by the authors and based on the Consensus-based Clinical Case Reporting (CARE) Guidelines. Search results screening, article inclusion, data extraction and risk of bais assessment was performed independently by two investigators. Clinical characteristics, particularly BD-related features, were compared between patients with MAGIC syndrome and cases of non-MAGIC RP. The performance characteristics of different criteria to classify MAGIC syndrome were also evaluated. Out of 96 patients with RP, 13 (14%) patients were diagnosed with MAGIC syndrome. For the systematic review, 380 articles were retrieved of which 90 were screened at title and abstract levels. Of these screened, 60 were excluded and 30 proceeded to full text review where an additional 8 were excluded. Twenty-two articles were included in our review and from which 27 additional cases of MAGIC syndrome were identified. Pooling all 40 cases together and comparing them with non-MAGIC RP, there was a significantly higher prevalence of ocular involvement (28% vs 4%, p <0.01), cutaneous involvement (35% vs 1%, p <0.01), GI involvement (23% vs 4%, p <0.01), and CNS involvement (8% vs 0, p = 0.04) in MAGIC syndrome. A higher prevalence of aortitis (23% vs 1%, p <0.01), Raynaud's phenomenon (54% vs 11%, p <0.01), and elevated anti-collagen II antibodies (50% vs 9%, p = 0.04) were observed in MAGIC syndrome. Fulfillment of either McAdam's or Damiani's Criteria for RP plus the International Criteria for Behçet's Disease had excellent sensitivity (98%) to classify cases of MAGIC syndrome. A substantial proportion of patients with RP can be clinically diagnosed with MAGIC syndrome. These patients have features of RP, BD, and other unique features including aortitis, Raynaud's phenomenon and elevated anti-collagen II antibodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]