Increasing Donation: Key Factors to Save More Lives

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Tackling social factors to save lives in India.

Health inequalities persist amid a booming economy. Patralekha Chatterjee reports.

Driving dangerously to save lives.

Correspondence: Samrat Sinha, MA, PhD Centre for Study of Political Violence Jindal School of International Affairs Sonipat Narela Road Sonipat, Haryana 131001 NCR of Delhi, India E-mail: [email protected] The article ‘‘In the Line of Duty: A Study of Ambulance Drivers During the 2010 Conflict in Kashmir’’ provides critical insights into the nature of risks faced by local health care workers...

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Recent successful endovascular stroke trials have provided unequivocal support for these therapies in selected patients with large-vessel occlusive acute ischemic stroke. In this piece, we briefly review these trials and their utilization of advanced neuroimaging techniques that played a pivotal role in their success through targeted patient selection. In this context, the unique challenges and...

Can lean save lives?

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to show how over the last 18 months Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust have been exploring whether or not lean methodologies, often known as the Toyota Production System, can indeed be applied to healthcare. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH This paper is a viewpoint. FINDINGS One's early experience is that lean really can save lives. The Toyota Production System is a...