Silica Exposure and Scleroderma: More Bridges and Collaboration between Disciplines Are Needed

Needed: Global Collaboration for Comparative Research on Cities and Health

Over half of the world’s population lives in cities and United Nations (UN) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. Yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (HPAM), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. We make a case for creating a global database on citie...

[Generalists are needed more than ever].

15 If today you want to keep up with basic and clin‐ ical research, you need to concentrate on a very small field and reach tremendous depths in this very field. And, actually, life is too short to also accumulate the knowledge necessary to do mean‐ ingful scientific work even on closely related top‐ ics. Hence, specialization is inevitable not only in research; it was a prerequisite for the de...

Pancreatic cancer: are more chemotherapy and surgery needed?

Most patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. Although mortality from the most common cancers has declined in the past few decades, the mortality for patients with pancreatic cancer has remained high. On the basis of rising incidence, demographic data, and survival projections, pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the second most deadly cancer in the near future. Panc...

Induced abortion and breast cancer: more scientific data are needed.

Despite intense study, the causes of breast cancer remain elusive (7). Reproductive factors are clearly of importance, but the nature of their influence on risk is complex and under continuous reassessment. It has been difficult to disentangle their effects because they are highly correlated and imperfect surrogates for unidentified underlying causal factors and because they are weakly related ...

Ischemic heart disease and women: more answers are needed.