Ipilimumab more and more discussed: urgent need for predictive markers of response

The Urgent Need for More Applicability in Peace Economics

To start, I shall criticize my own work. Take the paper on page 9 following this article. It purports to be a succinct statement of the topics and concerns of peace economics. It states "Central to the field are analyses of conflicts among nations, regions and other communities of the world; measures to control (de-escalate) arms races and achieve reduction in military expenditures and weaponry...

Smoke signals: urgent need for more successful interventions.

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

The challenges of quality improvement reports and the urgent need for more of them.

Healthcare quality has received sustained attention since the release of To Err is Human by the US Institute of Medicine in late 1999. This report captured widespread interest with the oft-quoted estimate that medical errors annually cause 44 000e98 000 deaths in US hospitals alone. This period also coincided with publication of ‘An organisation with a memory’, which described the scale and nat...