Continuing professional education seems to be particularly suited to the online environment with opportunities to communicate anywhere anytime. This appears to be convenient and time efficient for the busy working professional. The views of practising professionals were sought and form the basis of this paper. Primary care physicians at two locations, who actively pursue continuing education, d...

PURPOSE We wanted to develop and validate a clinical prediction rule to identify men at risk for osteoporosis and subsequent hip fracture who might benefit from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). METHODS We used risk factor data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III to develop a best fitting multivariable logistic regression model in men aged 50 years and older ra...

The living arrangements of older people are usually an important determinant of their quality of life. They are particularly significant for poor elders in the developing world, where formal welfare systems are less extensive. Policy debates in developing countries often allege that extended families and cultural mores of respect for elders have been more resilient than in the West (Contreras d...

Recent EU legislative and policy initiatives aim to offer flexible, innovation-friendly, future-proof regulatory frameworks. Key examples are the Coordinated Plan on AI recently published Regulation Proposal which refer importance of experimenting with sandboxes so as balance innovation in against its potential risks. Originally developed Fintech sector, create a testbed for selected number inn...