A low?cost field ventilator: An urgent global need

Female condoms, an urgent need.

Cooperative Learning Pedagogy: A Response to an Urgent Need in the Iranian EFL Reading Comprehension Context

While the advantages of cooperative learning activities have been extensively acknowledged in L2 literature, this type of pedagogy has not received due attention in the Iranian EFL context. Indeed, the traditional reading method still dominates in most Iranian EFL university classes even though it fails to meet its main objective which is training competent EFL readers. In an attempt to address...

New Hepatitis Data Highlight Need for Urgent Global Response

21 APRIL 2017 | GENEVA, AMSTERDAM New WHO data reveal that an estimated 325 million people worldwide are living with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The WHO Global hepatitis report, 2017 indicates that the large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and treatment. As a result, millions of people are at risk of a slow progression to chr...

Vaccine against Dental Caries- An Urgent Need

Dental caries, the disease that causes tooth decay, is infectious, and the mutans streptococci bacteria have long been identified as the primary disease-causing agents. Most treatments are now aimed at either elimination of this bacterium or suppression of its virulence. Thanks to numerous scientific advances, tooth decay is not as rampant as it once was, but it is still five times more common ...

Aldosterone assays: an urgent need for improvement.

It should not be forgotten that the concentration of aldosterone in plasma is only 1 thousandth that of cortisol. In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, Schirpenbach et al. (1 ) draw much-needed attention to current problems with measurement of aldosterone. The issue is extremely important in clinical practice after recognition that primary aldosteronism is a much more common cause of hypertensio...