One Step Back, Two Steps Ahead

Two steps forward, one step back.

Participants at a community health information network in Glens Falls, N.Y., have come face-to-face with obstacles that could have meant the end to this rural health network that the New York Department of Health and the John A. Hartford Foundation helped launch more than two years ago. Instead, John Laliberte, Glens Falls Hospital's director of information systems, and the rest of the IS team ...

One step forward, two steps back.

Prior research on child poverty has focused heavily on the roles of family structure and, to a lesser extent, parental work patterns to explain trends over time and differences across groups. However, immigrant child poverty has increased significantly over the past three decades even though labor force participation is high among immigrants and immigrant families are likely to be headed by a m...

One step forward and two steps back.

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy: Two steps forward, one step back.

Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy is poised to establish a new clinical paradigm; however, recent trials have produced mixed results. Although MSC were originally considered to treat connective tissue defects, preclinical studies revealed potent immunomodulatory properties that prompted the use of MSC to treat numerous inflammatory conditions. Unfortunately, although clinical trials have met ...

Environment. One step forward, two steps back on U.S. floodplains.

T he great Midwestern flood of 1993 broke flow records along 1600 km of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and caused up to $16 billion in damages (1, 2). Formal reviews of U.S. flood-control policy, both before and after the 1993 flood, concluded that the optimum strategy for reducing flood losses is to limit or even reduce infrastructure on floodplains. New emphases on flood-damage preventio...