894: Pregnancy as a ”golden opportunity” for patient activation and engagement

A golden opportunity, squandered.

Even when used to make products of negligible risk and that contribute significantly to public health, recombinant DNA technology (a.k.a. ‘genetic modification’, or GM) applied to agriculture has a tough row to hoe. ‘Golden Rice’, which has been enriched by the addition of genes that allow rice to synthesize b-carotene (the precursor of vitamin A) in its edible endosperm, has endured resistance...

A Golden Opportunity.

A bleak future or a golden opportunity.

The solutions to the problems facing the healthcare profession are too large to be addressed by one narrow segment, but oncologists and oncology nurses can be a model for health care in general if we build upon the ways in which we work together. Here is a shortage we have not heard much about: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recently released a report projecting a serious shor...

The patient with transient cerebral ischemia: a golden opportunity for stroke prevention.

Transient ischemic attack (TIA) provides a golden opportunity for stroke prevention. TIA should be treated as a medical emergency with prompt investigations to determine the mechanism of ischemia and subsequent preventive therapy. The risk of stroke after TIA is estimated to be 10%-20% in the first 90 days. The risk is time-dependent with 50% of the risk accruing in the first 48 hours. In this ...

Microfluidics: a golden opportunity for positron emission tomography?

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