We are still waiting

Cardiovascular risk management in rheumatoid arthritis: are we still waiting for the first step?

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a similar cardiovascular risk to that in diabetes, and therefore cardiovascular risk management (CV-RM) - that is, identification and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) - is mandatory. However, whether and to what extent this is done in daily clinical practice is unknown. In a retrospective cohort investigation, CV-RM was therefore compa...

We are still waiting for fully supportive electronic health records in pediatrics.

In thismonth’s issue of Pediatrics, we read a report on the state of clinical information technology adoption by pediatricians, based on an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) survey from 2009. The lessons from this report are that pediatricians were not adopting technology as fast as their nonpediatrician counterparts and, just as concerning, they were using technology that is not supportive ...

Status epilepticus: For what are we waiting?

Breastfeeding--why are we still failing?

Global public health recommendations on breastfeeding by WHO clearly state that, “infants should exclusively breastfeed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health.Thereafter, to meet their evolving nutritional requirements, infants should receive nutritionally adequate and safe complementary foods while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age o...

Still waiting for real answers.

On one level, I cannot help but be impressed with the body of evidence suggestingmultilingualism bestows an advantage in cognitive control. Owing in largemeasure to the distinguished scholarship of people such as Elizabeth Peal,Wallace Lambert, David Green, Ellen Bialystok, Jacques Mehler, and others, the so-called bilingual advantage has been detected all the way from the pre-lexical days of i...