Maternal mortality: direct or indirect has become irrelevant

Imaging informatics: lead, follow, or become irrelevant.

Despite the impressive technical acumen of the medical imaging industry, when one looks at the demands soon to be set upon us, radiology informatics is in its infancy. Over the past 20 years, imaging informatics systems, focusing on optimizing departmental efficiency and productivity, have been deployed at amazing rates [1]. However, as we advance toward a new era of government-influenced, inte...

Direct or indirect iodine supplementation of infants?

Iodine is needed for thyroid hormone production and iodine suffi ciency is particularly important during pregnancy, lactation, and infancy owing to the role of thyroid hormones in brain development. A defi ciency of iodine during these life stages can result in impaired child cognition and has been associated with infant mortality. In countries with inadequate iodised salt coverage and iodine d...

5 Indirect maternal mortality increases in the Netherlands

Submitted Chapter 5

Reasoning has become a luxury

It is being talked about all over the world; an editorial in the Economist of 19 October 2013 entitled " How Science Goes Wrong " reports a dramatic decline in the quality of scientific publications. Research has changed the world, now it needs to change itself, the subheading reads. The detailed report is based on facts which are difficult to disprove; an example being a Harvard biologist, Joh...

Has screening mammography become obsolete?