First pill for gum disease

Integrated Care: A Pill for All Ills?

There is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. However, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. In this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

The "pill", promiscuity, and venereal disease.

The various factors responsible for this rise have been discussed by such authors as Morton (1966) and Ids0e and Guthe (1967). A more recent possible reason for the increased incidence of sexually transmissible diseases is the increasing use of the oral contraceptives (Ashworth, 1968). The doctor working in the venereal disease clinic is in the best position to note the changes in sexual habits...

integrated care: a pill for all ills?

there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

First report of Johne's disease in Iran

A pill for every ill.

To the Editor: Dr Lip1 and The HOPE investigators2 again sing the praises of ACE inhibitors (“the pill for every ill”)—this time in the regression and prevention of ECG-LVH. The numerous “non– blood pressure” properties of ACE inhibition are elegantly described in Dr Lip’s editorial, as the benefits noted were not simply explained by blood pressure reduction. However, the blood pressure story m...