Rising to the Challenge

Rising to the challenge.

Rising to the challenge of surging seas

W aking up to the sound of crashing waves, ocean views and sandy beaches remains, for many, the dream. However, according to a series of recent reports and studies on rising sea levels, sleepless nights could be in store for beachfront real-estate owners and residents of coastal cities the world over. Earlier this year, the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) r...

Childhood Cancer Rising to the challenge

Beyond diagnosis: rising to the multimorbidity challenge.

In January 2012 the Institute of Medicine in the United States published the report of a consensus study on living well with chronic illness. The report made 17 recommendations for public health approaches to chronic disease prevention, surveillance, data gathering, and chronic disease management programmes that would help improve quality of life and functioning and reduce disability.1 Although...

Rising to the challenge: strategies for the new healthcare enterprise.

Ah, security — it has become the new mantra of the IT world. In the past, information security was mostly a game of risk and insurance: you determined what your level of risk was based on a threat analysis and judged how likely and how damaging the threats might be if they occurred. You then developed mitigating strategies and decided if the cost of mitigation was warranted based on the perceiv...