Monitoring marine plastics – will we know if we are making a difference?

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Distribution of what? How will we know if we have achieved Education for All by 2015?

In 1990 at the Jomtein Conference in Thailand organised by UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP and the World Bank the 157 governments present agreed to a Declaration, the World Declaration on Education for All that signalled their commitment to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2000. EFA was not defined succinctly, but was laid out as comprising: universal access to education services ‘of quality’; equity wi...

Superior Capsule Reconstruction: What Do We Know?

The management of irreparable rotator cuff tears remains challenging. Since its introduction by Mihata in 2012, superiorcapsule reconstruction (SCR) has grown in popularity at an astonishingly rapid rate. The aim of this article is to providea comprehensive review of the available literature, in order to highlight what has so far been published on SCR,covering all aspects including biomechanica...

How do we know if we are making progress in reducing the public health burden of stroke?

See related article, p, 2207. Much of the description of the differential burden of specific diseases and temporal changes in these burdens is based on mortality data. Stroke mortality rates have declined dramatically in the 20th century and into the new millennium. This has been acclaimed as one of the top 10 public health achievements of these eras.1,2 In 1999, the age-adjusted stroke death r...

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...