Why so few case reports—why (systematic) reviews instead?

Systematic reviews in epidemiology: why are we so far behind?

President's page: Women cardiologists: why so few?

For 50 years, American cardiology has been a fertile field in terms of innovation, invention, and impact on illness (1). But one thing is still in short supply in our specialty— women. Despite a dramatic increase in the number of female medical school graduates in the U.S. during the last generation (13.4% in 1975 to 42.4% in 2000), very few women choose to become cardiologists. Today, when abo...

Doctors with difficulties: why so few women?

The National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), an NHS organisation that assesses doctors and dentists referred to them because of perceived difficulties, has produced a report describing data arising from its first 4 years, showing that male doctors were referred to the service considerably more often than female doctors. Despite women accounting for 42% of the general practitioner medical wo...

So few pulsars, so few females.

Why So Few New Cardiovascular Drugs Translate to the Clinics

There are multiple reasons for the failure to successfully translate new drugs to the clinics. One reason, noted by others, is the lack of reproducibility of studies and the problems with accuracy and rigor. However, another reason for translational failure has not been emphasized by others, that is, the lack of state-of-the-art cardiovascular measurements, because of effects of anesthesia, lac...