Barbara currently lectures for the School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) at Edith Cowan University in information services management, information literacy, elearning and children’s literature. Her major interest areas include the role of teacher librarians in education, plagiarism, online learning and the online experience in distance education particularly for first time users, i...

Orthodontic workforce planning Historically, orthodontic workforce planning has proved difficult. In 1985 Stephens et al.1 predicted an oversupply of orthodontists and yet only 13 years later the Task Group for Orthodontics identified a shortfall and recommended a target of 480 general dental service specialist practitioners for the UK. This wide ranging and perspicacious report took into accou...

This special issue of the Journal of Optometry has a focus on ‘‘binocular vision’’. Over the past decade, the area of binocular vision, and related oculomotor-based reading performance and visual comfort, as well as other visual aspects, has taken on a special prominence. This is primarily due to two factors.1 First, there are the United States conflicts that have persisted in the mideast over ...

The ancient dream of successful organ transplantation was finally realized 50 yr ago, on December 23, 1954, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Over the subsequent half century, the separate disciplines of clinical transplantation and transplant immunology have made remarkable progress. The story of the convergent evolution of these two fields represents one of modern medicine’s most ...