Injury prevention and control: will we or will we not step out of the twentieth century?

Interventional Cardiology: How Will We Cope with the Next Century?

Meeting holds a very special place in interventional cardiology. When Richard Myler opened the meeting, he eloquently conveyed his very personal feelings towards Andreas. This meeting is unique because it is so personal, just as Andreas would have wanted. Speaking for USCI, I m u s t say that it was the courage, vision and leadership of Andreas Grüntzig that motivated a small group of leaders t...

Global Carbon Pricing We Will If You Will

This paper makes the case for negotiating a common international charge on greenhouse gas emissions (“carbon”) as opposed to global cap-andtrade. All countries would be covered in principle, but a much smaller number that covered most of the emissions would suffice. The charge would be internationally adjusted from time to time, and each country would collect and keep the revenue it generated b...

Will We Ever Find the Biggest Pumpkin?

It has been a year since the new millennium began. European jurisprudence in its modern form is one thousand years old. I have been working in the field of law for some 30 years. The biggest change I could like to see in the new millennium is that we might learn to ask questions that are small and clearly defined. There are probably no exact answers to the big questions. I will be true to my co...

How We Will, Not Whether We Can: Improving Health and Healthcare

When will we finally adopt endoscopic ultrasound?

I read with interest the article in a recent issue of CHEST (August 2014) by Liberman et al, 1 who performed a prospective lung cancer staging trial in which patients underwent both an endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) investigation followed by surgical staging. Th e combination of an endobronchial and esophageal approach was superior in detecting (sensitivity, 91%...