New specialty?

Emergency medicine: a relatively new specialty.

Social work informatics: a new specialty.

The use of technology in social work practice has risen dramatically over the past 10 years. Clinical interventions such as psychotherapy using telephones, interactive video, and the Internet are gaining in popularity. For a discipline traditionally tied to face-to-face interaction, many concerns about moving to technology-based practices have been raised. The National Association of SocialWork...

Developing New Specialty Grains for Ruminants

SUMMARY Corn, soybean, and sunflower hybrids with improved agronomic and nutritional traits are grown widely today. Barring increased concern about genetically altered crops, production of specialty grains is likely to increase because novel traits possessed by many new hybrids are desired by both grain producers and grain users. Most specialty grains available today possess improved altered " ...

A new specialty in cancer care?

I was intrigued by a recent issue of Cure, a magazine for patients with cancer. A cover headline boasted new insight into palliative medicine, and the issue included an article by Joanne Kenen (2008) and an editorial by Betty Ferrell (2008). Palliative care has been an important part of cancer care as far back as hospice and end-of-life care, so how is it new? Hospice has been around for a long...

Oncologic mathematics: evolution of a new specialty.

HYPOTHESIS Mathematical methods and their derivatives have practical applications to oncology. They can be used to describe fundamental aspects of tumor behavior, such as loss of genetic stability, tumor growth, immunologic identity, genesis of diversity, and methods of prognosticating cancer. DATA SOURCES Descriptive models and published literature in the fields of oncology and applied mathe...