Is Pharma Running Out of Brainy Ideas?

Is audit running out of steam?

Richard Thomson has research interests in quality in health care and health services research. He previously headed the Northern Regional Health Authority's multidisciplinary quality directorate with responsibility for facilitating audit and quality assurance activities across the region. He has contributed to several national groups concerned with influencing policy on audit, including that at...

eComment. Is the USA running out of cardiothoracic surgeons?

flow of surgeons reaching retirement age during this time is limited to 5 per annum for an arrival of 10–11 trained senior residents. The situation improves after 2020 for the finishing trainees. Surgery is certainly now performed more and more within highly coordinated teams, which at one time or another seek new collaborators that can open opportunities. Young surgeons in training, far from w...

Prescribing Fire in Eastern Oak Forests: Is Time Running Out?

Before European settlement, vast areas of the eastern US deciduous forest were dominated by oak species. Evidence indicates that periodic understory fire was an important ecological factor in the historical development of oak forests. During European settlement of the late 19th and early 20th century, much of the eastern United States was impacted by land-clearing, extensive timber harvesting, ...

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Aminoglycoside Resistance in ICUs: Are We Running out of Drugs, for Bad Bugs

Many classes of antibacterial drugs are currently available for physicians to use, however the plan of antibiotic development has slowed during the last decade. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the 3 most important problems for human health. Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem worldwide, especially in hospitals, where resistant orga...