Tiny babies can be sugary sweet—how hard should we work to control this?

Yes, We Can! (Should We?).

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...

We should have seen this coming

The possibility of precognition has fascinated humanity since ancient times making it a recurring theme in fiction and mythology. It has also been a topic for scientific investigation. While the majority of such parapsychological studies have been ignored by the larger scientific community, several recent studies of purported precognitive phenomena were published by major international psycholo...

Should we all be vegetarians?

Laboratory quality control for all. Can this be achieved?

Visiting hospitals in Africa and meeting with clinicians, pathologists, and laboratory directors, it rapidly becomes apparent that confidence in any diagnostic services is lacking. Clinicians cite many reasons. Some days complete blood cell counts and chemistries are available, while on other days, because there are no reagents available, physicians have no results to guide treatment for their ...