Is 10 000 hours enough for urology residency?

When is a Urology Drug Safe Enough for Pregnancy?

IN a retrospective study in this issue of The Journal subjects is likely invalid. The report also reveals Bailey et al (page 99) have published the first report to date to my knowledge on tamsulosin medical expulsion therapy given during pregnancy. Their report is timely since medical expulsion therapy, although considered an off label Food and Drug Administration indication, has clearly become...

Is 48 hours enough for Obstetrics and Gynaecology training in Europe?

The European Working Time Directive, implemented by the European Union (EU) in 1993, was adopted in the medical profession to improve patient safety as well as the working lives of doctors. The Directive reduced the average amount of hours trainee doctors worked to 48 hours per week. However, its adoption has varied throughout the EU. Its potential effect on both the quality and total amount of...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Pfam 10 years on: 10 000 families and still growing

Classifications of proteins into groups of related sequences are in some respects like a periodic table for biology, allowing us to understand the underlying molecular biology of any organism. Pfam is a large collection of protein domains and families. Its scientific goal is to provide a complete and accurate classification of protein families and domains. The next release of the database will ...

Enough is enough.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General report on smoking and health (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1964) was the release of the 2014 Surgeon General report The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2014). During a press conference announcing the report in January 2014, Acting Surgeon Gene...