Canine guidance on crowned teeth: time for a rethink?

Influenza vaccines: time for a rethink.

Officials and professional societies treat influenza as a major public health threat for which the annual vaccine offers a safe and effective solution. In this article, I challenge these basic assumptions. I show that there is no good evidence that vaccines reduce serious complications of influenza, the outcomes the policy is meant to address. Moreover, promotional messages conflate "influenza"...

Breast screening: time for a rethink?

Doctorates in Is: Time for a Rethink?

This paper aims to generate discussion on the future role and format of doctorates within the IS discipline. Concerns of the traditional Ph.D. programs are examined with regard to the IS field. Models of doctorates used in other disciplines are explored. One such model, the professional Doctorate in Education (Ed.D.), is examined in greater detail. There are similarities between the Education a...

Bladder cancer: time for a rethink?

In this issue of ONCOLOGY, Kamat and Mathew provide an excellent overview of the current status and future imperatives of bladder cancer treatment and research. As the authors highlight, and as other experts have recently written,[1] a paradigm shift is long overdue. The basic management of bladder tumors has remained essentially unchanged for over 50 years, and despite its importance—on accoun...

Audit: time to rethink

Editorial Audit: time to rethink Doctors carry out 20,000 audit projects each year. This will have cost the NHS £834 million by the end of the century.1 What is the benefit to patients? Most clinicians would immediately reply "very little". The NHS Executive is more guarded in reply, but, tellingly, has commissioned more research on the value of audit. The NHS Audit Initiative was formally laun...