Looking back on 10 years of global road safety

What ever happened to...? Looking back 10 years.

This is part of an occasional series that recalls some of the stories reported 10 years ago in the News section of the Journal. This September, results of a phase III study of the shark cartilage extract AE-941 (Neovastat) suggested no benefit of the product on overall survival of patients with renal cell cancer. The findings come as a disappointment to researchers in a field plagued by negativ...

Looking back on 20 years of NCK

I will be retiring this year. That is an additional reason for me to look back on 20 years of NCK. I see the NCK as one of the most significant initiatives in my discipline in which I was involved during my career. It brings me a sense of contentment that I could contribute to this initiative. The NCK overlaps with a bloom in Dutch coastal research. That is due to the work of many. But in my ex...

Looking back on 2 years of Nursing Open: looking forward

As Nursing Open enters its third year, it is worth recording that this January 2016 issue was published almost a month in advance. Little did we expect this kind of success when I was planning the launch of the journal with Wiley partner Griselda Campbell in a small tea room in a very wet and windy Cork, Ireland during the 2014 INANE conference. As ever, it is much easier to predict the past th...

Clinical pharmacy: looking 20 years back... looking 20 years forward.

Angaran: We have two main goals in this panel discussion. First, to describe the current status of the health care delivery environment, the medication use system, and the pharmacy profession. And second, to discuss the specific challenges and opportunities for pharmacy over the next 5–10 years. Our hope is that you identify at least one specific action that you can apply that will catalyze cha...

Microprocessors - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead