Concurrent Care Is Not Enough: More Hospice Reforms Are Needed for Children with Serious Illness

More palliative care specialists is not enough.

Message to the FDA on ESAs: REMS is not enough, more studies are needed.

S ince March 24, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been requiring a “Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy” (REMS) for all patients who are treated with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) (1). Although regulatory authorities elsewhere in the world have not as yet taken this approach, experience suggests that these agencies often take their cues from the FDA. Most nephrolo...

How Much Is Enough… What More Is Needed?

Energy Efficiency Is Not Enough, Energy Proportionality Is Needed!

Due to the energy consumption/resource utilization characteristics of todays centralized DB servers, the fastest configuration is also the most energy-efficient one. Extensive use of SSDs alone cannot enable a fundamental change of this overall picture, because the storagerelated energy consumption is typically only a little fraction of the overall energy budget. Even, when this storage-related...

Travel Risks for Those With Serious Mental Illness

Introduction: It has been known for a long time in the French-speaking, but not the English-speaking literature that travel can exacerbate pre-existing psychosis. The purpose of this article was to review the literature on this subject and present recommendations for prevention. Methods: For this narrative review of the literature on travel risks in indivi...