Libya: Lost in Transition

Lost in transition at discharge.

No longer lost in transition.

1Agency for Integrated Care Pte Ltd Address for Correspondence: Dr Dennis Chia Bingzhu, Agency for Integrated Care, 5 Maxwell Road, #10-00 Tower Block, MND complex, Singapore 069110. Email: [email protected] The Need for Transitional Care Over the past three decades, Singapore’s healthcare system has evolved into one that comprises some 35 specialties which has helped to better manage th...

VPS35 leaves endosomes lost in transition

VPS35 leaves endosomes lost in transition S luggish recycling of a protein-slicing enzyme could promote Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Wen et al. show. A , the protein that accumulates in the brains of AD patients, is formed when enzymes cut up its parental protein, known as amyloid precursor protein. One of those enzymes is -secretase or BACE1. BACE1 cycles between the Golgi apparatus and the plasm...

Lost in transition--the Island of Susak (1951-2001).

The isolated population of the Island of Susak was thoroughly studied by a multidisciplinary team of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in early 1950's. Recently, a team of scientists revisited the island. This paper describes the main characteristics of the transition process during which a massive exodus occurred with 90% of the island's population migrating to New Jersey, USA. We summ...

Mental health services in Libya

Despite all the internal and external criticisms of mental health services in Libya, they remain underdeveloped across the country. The World Health Organization has made efforts to improve the country's mental health services; however, until a stable government is formed, patients with mental illness will continue to be deprived of their basic needs.