Associate Degree Biotechnology Programs: What are we doing right and why should you care?

Health-information exchange: why are we doing it, and what are we doing?

Health-information exchange, that is, enabling the interoperability of automated health data, can facilitate important improvements in healthcare quality and efficiency. A vision of interoperability and its benefits was articulated more than a decade ago. Since then, important advances toward the goal have been made. The advent of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Heal...

Why don't we know more about what we are doing?

There have been huge changes in science and technology in the past 30 years. We now understand the genetic basis of many diseases, and with the complete mapping of the genome, our knowledge will expand tremendously. We have CT, MRI, computer-guided surgery, gait analysis, and a host of other advances which have made medical care for our patients more effective. While these changes have profound...

Globalization of spine care: how are we doing and what are we doing?

Let me address your pressing first question right away: both, US government officials in charge of PubMed, and our publisher Thieme Verlag, have assured me repeatedly that all of our EBSJ files are being actively (albeit slowly) downloaded as we are speaking and will be available online before years-end inclusive of all previously published articles to date. Delays apparently were caused by a c...

What Is Cold Fusion and Why Should You Care?

IgA deficiency: what we should-or should not-be doing.

Although IgA deficiency (IgAD) is currently recognised as the most frequent immunodeficiency in humans, individuals with IgAD are largely considered to be healthy and when discovered are usually not investigated further or followed up. The rare occasion when IgAD is a cause for concern is when these individuals require blood or blood products, in which case current practice advises that product...