The national review of asthma deaths: what did we learn and what needs to change?

The national review of asthma deaths: what did we learn and what needs to change?

KEY POINTS The 2014 UK National Review of Asthma Deaths identified potentially preventable factors in two-thirds of the medical records of cases scrutinised45% of people who died from asthma did not call for or receive medical assistance in their final fatal attackOverall asthma management, acute and chronic, in primary and secondary care was judged to be good in less than one-fifth of those wh...

One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?

One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?  Masoud Gharib 1, Seyed Ali Hosseini 2     1 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational, Orthopedic Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran...

What did we learn today?

W e learnt that the development of the intestinal microbiota (IM) is extremely complex and a giant puzzle to piece together from adults and children in both developing and developed countries, or more experimentally. Each piece may or may not have future consequences for the IM. However, we are now at the end of the beginning of finishing just one microbiological puzzle. Additionally, we have t...

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Thalidomide retrospective: what did we learn?

The year 1986 was the 25th anniversary of the recognition that thalidomide is a potent human teratogen, and our president, Lewis Holmes, asked me to organize a symposium at our 26th annual meeting to commemorate that event which, disastrous though it was, provided an immense stimulus to the development of teratology. I was able to gather a panel of speakers all of whom were deeply involved in t...