Hospitals in Germany must do more to procure organs, says report

Global tuberculosis partnership says industrialized world must do more.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has unveiled a new blueprint to halve the 1.8 million deaths caused by tuberculosis (TB) each year but says it needs an additional US$14 billion from industrialized world over the next five years to achieve that target. The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011 — 2015: Transforming the Fight — Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis, announced simultaneously at the World H...

Can NHS hospitals do more with less ? Research report

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the librarians at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham for their invaluable help with the literature review, and colleagues at the Nuffield Trust for their support: Trust trustee and Chair of the Quest for NHS Efficiency programme steering group, for their comments on our emerging thinking. Our sincere gratitude goes to all the ...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Acute exacerbation in COPD: we must do more.

If one asks medical students which emergencies they hold as especially important in internal medicine, more than 90% first mention myocardial infarction and stroke. This is not surprising, because these diseases occupy the first places in the mortality statistics contained in the Global Burden of Disease report [1]. Nevertheless, respiratory failure is only described as rare, despite the fact t...

Could hospitals do more to encourage breast feeding?

and quite distinct dimensions ofhealth care.7'8 The use of crude measures of activity implies that more care is synonymous with better health and ignores the fact that few health care interventions have been adequately evaluatedboth from a medical and from an economic standpoint.9 Undertaking more activity regardless of its medical or economic effectiveness can no longer be justified as an obje...