The Irish Mediation Act 2017: Much done, more to do

Much remains to be done.

Dr. Philip May presents a highly competent discussion of the major considerations attending morbidity and mortality associated with alcoholism on Indian reservations in the United States. Unfortunately, his article in this publication is mostly applicable to the period prior to 1985. Since 1985, the profile of chemical dependency in Indian country has been dramatically altered. A proliferation ...

Body-worn monitors: a lot done, more to do.

Pharmacotherapy-Based Problems in the Management of Diabetes Mellitus: Needs Much More to be Done!

A total of 856 diabetic patients were evaluated for pharmacotherapy-based problems like for possible drug interactions, adverse drug reactions, and other mismatches, if any. Poor correlation between the advised insulin therapy and patients' fasting blood glucose levels (12%, n=103) was observed. To most of the patients (41.66%, n= 357), insulin therapy was advised in combination with glucocorti...

Diabetic Kidney Disease: Much Progress, But Still More to Do

W hen I was a medical student in the 1960s, about one-third of patients with type 1 diabetes developed end-stage renal disease (ESRD) by ~30 years' duration of diabetes (1), and there wasn't anything that could be done for them. Medicare only started paying for treatment of ESRD (dialysis/ transplantation) in the United States in 1973. So, most of those patients died. Recently, the Diabetes Con...

Social capital: much discussed, somewhat controversial, but more to do.

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