The impending conversion factor crisis and neurointerventional practice

The impending crisis.

When you are ill and consult a physician for his or her expertise, many times laboratory testing is part of the clinical workup. This testing is critical to the physician's ability to diagnose the patient's condition. What if testing was not available … because there was no one to do the testing? Although seemingly far-fetched, this scenario could play itself out in the next ten years due to an...

Antibiotic resistance. An impending crisis.

The global emergence of antimicrobial resistance has become a pre-eminent concern in medicine and public health. Antimicrobial resistance is of particular concern because the problem is widespread, the causative factors are uncontrolled, and national strategies to address the problem are lacking. The persisting burden of infectious diseases makes elimination of antibiotic use unethical, but dra...

Clinical investigation...an impending crisis?

The impending crisis in CNS drug development

A plethora of information has been gathered across the fields of neuroimaging, genetics/genomics, proteomics, neurobiology, and epidemiology that have greatly enhanced our basic knowledge of the pathophysiological and genetic underpinnings of many common central nervous system (CNS) disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease, depression, and anxiety disorders...

Impending conservation crisis for Southeast Asian amphibians.

With an understudied amphibian fauna, the highest deforestation rate on the planet and high harvesting pressures, Southeast Asian amphibians are facing a conservation crisis. Owing to the overriding threat of habitat loss, the most critical conservation action required is the identification and strict protection of habitat assessed as having high amphibian species diversity and/or representing ...