Saving Lives and Livelihoods in the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Have We Learned, Particularly from Asia?

Pathophysiology of Ischemia/Reperfusion-induced Myocardial Injury: What We Have Learned From Preconditioning and Postconditioning?

Organ damage after reperfusion of previously viable ischemic tissues is defined as ischemia/reperfusion injury. The pathophysiology of ischemia/reperfusion injury involves cellular effect of ischemia, reactive oxygen species and inflammatory cascade. Protection against ischemia/reperfusion injury may be achieved by preconditioning or postconditioning. In this review, we discuss basic mechan...

Land Markets in South Asia: What Have We Learned?

What have we learned from the substudies?

T T he findings suggest that accountability is increasingly seen as important. This scrutiny has both positive and negative implications. It forces providers to be aware of what they are doing, and to strive to improve their performance. Many of our respondents told us that there is an increased focus on quality. Accountability has moved beyond its traditional focus on financial dimensions (and...

What Have We Learned?

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE INSTITUTE of Medicine (IOM) reported that as many as 98 000 people die annually as the result of medical errors and called for a national effort to make health care safe, it is time to assess our progress. Is health care safer now? And, if not, why not? The IOM’s report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, galvanized a dramatically expanded level of conversatio...

What Have We Learned from Social Learning?

Social learning occurs in any situation in which agents learn by observing the behavior of others. Such a broad definition encompasses any situation in which there is asymmetric information, but recent research has focused on a more specialized set of situations, in Social learning occurs in any situation in which agents learn by observing the behavior owhich the existence of informational exte...