Can We Stop the Academic AI Brain Drain?

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

Diabetes: can we stop the time bomb?

Type 2 diabetes is increasing in prevalence and it is estimated that three million individuals in the UK will have the disease by 2010. People with diabetes have a high risk of cardiovascular disease-coronary heart disease is more prevalent, more extensive, and more diffuse. For all cardiovascular syndromes, the mortality is virtually doubled in patients with diabetes. Large clinical trials hav...

Editorial: The ageing nursing workforce: how can we avoid a retirement brain drain?

Nursing’s ageing workforce is the subject of increasing discussion and debate (Watson 2005, Lavoie-Tremblay et al. 2006). There are expectations of widespread retirements in the near future (Eley et al. 2007) and many areas and nursing specialties are threatened by the expected loss of large numbers of their workforce to retirement. This threat is true for clinical nurses (Halcomb et al. 2008),...

Can we stop the stroke epidemic in Pakistan?

Controversies in the antiphospholipid syndrome: can we ever stop warfarin?

Patients with antiphospholipid syndrome are at increased risk for recurrent arterial and venous thrombosis and therefore benefit from long term warfarin therapy. The optimal duration of warfarin therapy after a first venous thromboembolic event is however a matter of some controversy and many questions remain unanswered. After reviewing and analysing the available evidence, we discuss some comm...