The challenge of managing fusariosis

Managing the Fukushima Challenge

The Fukushima Daiichi accident raises a fundamental question: Can science and technology prevent the inevitability of serious accidents, especially those with low probabilities and high consequences? This question reminds us of a longstanding challenge with the trans-sciences, originally addressed by Alvin Weinberg well before the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents. This article, revisit...

The challenge of managing wheezing in infants.

Around the world, thousands of times a day, an infant 6 to 8 months old with a runny nose, a cough, and wheezing arrives in a pediatrician’s office or an outpatient clinic. In Western countries about one in three children has at least one episode of wheezing before his or her third birthday.1 Even with all these wheezy children, we still do not know the answers to a number of basic questions. W...

The challenge of managing mid-foot pain.

BACKGROUND The mid-foot bears the unheralded and proud, but potentially onerous, task of converting lower limb, vertically oriented stresses into propulsive horizontal motion with the further challenges of speed and direction change over varying terrains. A complex interaction of bones, joints and connective tissues has been cleverly engineered to accommodate these demands. However, these entru...

Managing the jaundiced newborn: a persistent challenge.

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, March 17, 2015, 187(5) 335 Pediatricians and family physicians deal regularly with jaundiced newborn infants who emerge unscathed from their transient exposure to an elevated serum bilirubin level. Yet, despite published guidelines for the management of neonatal jaundice, there are rare infants in whom bilirubin encephalopathy develops. Canada cu...

Managing Pruritus - a Therapeutic Challenge