Editorial comment on Malkin and Keane (2010)

Comment on Editorial; Best Research for Low Income Countries

Achieving a practical and productive balance in collaborative research between partners from high and lower income countries (North-South Collaborations) requires seeking win-win solutions. This issue requires time to engage each other and to understand each participant’s research priorities and to identify areas of mutual interest. In SACTRC’s experience, key elements include; building researc...

Editorial Comment: Therapeutic Orphans

By an odd and unfortunate twist of fate, infants and children are becoming “therapeutic or pharmaceutical orphans.”1 Since 1962 they have been denied the use of many new drugs. The Drug Laws of 1962 had their inception following a pediatric tragedy—the thalidomide catastrophe. The laws of 1938 followed another which resulted from the use of a pediatric dosage form, “elixir” of sulfanilamide. By...

Editorial CAFVIR 2010

Editorial comment: The Nuss procedure.

the quality of life in young male adults with pectus excavatum deformity. Nakajima T. Stress distribution on the thorax after the Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum results in different patterns between adult and child patients. Postoperative consumption of opioid analgesics following correction of pectus excavatum is influenced by pectus severity: a single-centre study of 236 patients undergo...

Editorial: the IEEE transactions on neural networks 2010 and beyond

I T gives me great pleasure to write this first editorial of the year and to say " Happy New Year! " to all of you. I have great hope for 2010, which is the year of the tiger according to the Chinese lunar calendar. Coincidentally, I was born in the year of the tiger, which is said to represent courage, passion, speed, and generosity. So I look forward to a wonderful year, and I wish the best f...