SP-0381: Clinical challenges we currently face

What We Know Currently about Mirror Neurons

Mirror neurons were discovered over twenty years ago in the ventral premotor region F5 of the macaque monkey. Since their discovery much has been written about these neurons, both in the scientific literature and in the popular press. They have been proposed to be the neuronal substrate underlying a vast array of different functions. Indeed so much has been written about mirror neurons that las...

Four Challenges That Global Health Networks Face

Global health networks, webs of individuals and organizations with a shared concern for a particular condition, have proliferated over the past quarter century. They differ in their effectiveness, a factor that may help explain why resource allocations vary across health conditions and do not correspond closely with disease burden. Drawing on findings from recently concluded studies of eight gl...

Anesthesiology and the Difficult Airway – Where Do We Currently Stand?

Anesthesiology has made a significant advance in airway care since the introduction of the facemask and then followed by endotracheal tubes for assisted ventilation. [1] The need for assisted ventilation for the advancement of anesthesia care has resulted in significant improvements in health care for patients needing surgical, diagnostic, and intensive BLOCKINcare. BLOCKINPractitioners BLOCKIN...

New Dietary Supplements for Obesity: What We Currently Know.

Obesity and its associated cardiometabolic alterations currently are considered an epidemic; thus, their treatment is of major importance. The cornerstone for such treatment involves therapeutic lifestyle changes; however, the vast majority of cases fail and/or significant weight loss is maintained only in the short term because of lack of compliance. The popularity of dietary supplements for w...

Do Lay Christian Counseling Approaches Work? What We Currently Know