The House Shortage Again

The llhirsing Shortage Clondmies As Facnily Shortage Grows

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...

The BCG Shortage

In 2014, I was on the Board of Directors of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) when Merck announced having shortages of Tice strain Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG), a critical “drug” for treating intermediate and particularly high risk non-muscle invasive (NMI) urothelial cancer (UC) of the bladder, including carcinoma-in-situ (CIS) and high-grade (HG), stage Ta and T1 disease after transure...

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The drug shortage crisis.

Playing a dirty trick on airway smooth muscle: house dust mite does it again.

I ncreased airway smooth muscle (ASM) mass is a hallmark of asthma and is thought to be the main contributor to the increased airway hyperresponsiveness seen in asthmatics [1]. This increase is related to disease severity (reviewed in [2]) and caused by hyperplasia alone or in combination with hypertrophy, depending on the generation of airways [3, 4]. Why and how ASM mass is increased is incom...