Screening for Cancer: Progress, but More Can Be Done

Drug safety: can more be done?

Ensuring a Diverse Physician Workforce: Progress but More to Be Done.

Invited Commentary Ensuring a Diverse PhysicianWorkforce: Progress butMore to BeDone In their study of the diversity of graduate medical education in theUnited States, Deville and colleagues1 call attention yet again to thecontinuedunderrepresentationofwomenandminority groups in medicine compared with the population as a whole. Among the many interesting findings, Iwasmoststruckthatamongall spe...

Not everything that can be done should be done.

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Declining childhood and adolescent cancer mortality: Great progress but still much to be done

In this issue of Cancer, Smith et al report on mortality rates for children and adolescents with cancer from 1975 to 2010. They focused on the most recent period between 2002 and 2010 and demonstrated a rate of decline in mortality similar to that observed from 1975 to 1998 after an apparent plateau between 1998 and 2002. An annual percentage change (APC) in mortality rate of 2.4% was observed ...

Inequality – What can be done ?

Prof. Atkinson is one of the most influential authors on inequality. This popular science book consists of 400 pages, divided in three parts: Diagnosis, Proposal for Action and Can It Be Done with 11 chapters. Beside these 11 chapters, there is an Introduction and the final part of the book entitled The Way Forward. At the end of the book, there is Glossary and a long list of the notes for each...