CORONAVIRUS: Urgent Delivery Need

Urgent Need for Standardization

O ver the last 20 years, important advances have been made in the clinical use of oral anticoagulants and in our understanding of their mechanism of action. Clinical trials have demonstrated that oral anticoagulants are effective antithrombotic agents,' that the incidence of bleeding is influenced strongly by the intensity of the anticoagulant effect,2-S and that for many clinical indications t...

Female condoms, an urgent need.

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...

The urgent need to improve hypertension care.

Hypertension is the most prevalent health problem among adult primary care patients, but its recognition and treatment are suboptimal. Although there is ample evidence from several large-scale randomized, controlled studies that treatment of hypertension reduces morbidity and mortality, current management of hypertension is characterized by underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, undertreatment, overtrea...