Theory and health behavior: are we making progress?

Geriatric education in the health professions: are we making progress?

PURPOSE Relative to the overall population, older adults consume a disproportionally large percentage of health care resources. Despite advocacy and efforts initiated more than 30 years ago, the number of providers with specialized training in geriatrics is still not commensurate with the growing population of older adults. This contribution provides a contemporary update on the status of geria...

Hepatorenal Syndrome, Are we making any Progress?

Are we making progress in maternal mortality?

n engl j med 364;21 nejm.org may 26, 2011 1990 resent a diverse genetic pool that allows for adaptation and evolutionary change. Further insight into how these adaptations occur may enhance our ability to predict the emergence of new, more capable bacterial pathogens, the development of more predictive animal models, and the potential identification of critical pathways that might serve as ther...

Breast cancer prognostication and prediction: are we making progress?

Currently, much effort is being invested in the identification of new, accurate prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer. Prognostic factors assess the patient's risk of relapse based on indicators such as intrinsic tumor biology and disease stage at diagnosis, and are traditionally used to identify patients who can be spared unnecessary adjuvant therapy based only on the risk of rela...

More rural and Aboriginal students for health related university courses--are we making progress?

Gil-Soo Han is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Rural Health, Monash University. Julie Mahnken was a Senior Lecturer at the Greater Green Triangle University Department of Rural Health, Deakin University. Sally Belcher is a Lecturer at the School of Rural Health, University of Melbourne. Han and Belcher are Victorian Universities Rural Health Consortium coordinators in their respective univer...