Access to antiretrovirals still too scarce in many countries

Too many Japanese university students are still smoking tobacco

Although campus-wide smoking bans are slowly spreading throughout Japan, the uptake of these measures has been suboptimal and many Japanese university students continue to smoke. Educational facilities are in an ideal position to set positive examples for tobacco control, and the time is now right for more Japanese universities to actively encourage their students as health promotion advocates ...

How many "me-too" drugs is too many?

ON AUGUST 3, 2009, THE US FOOD AND DRUG ADministration (FDA) approved pitavastatin (Livalo), making it the eighth statin approved for use in the United States and seventh currently available for sale. This approval comes almost a quarter century after that for the first member of the class, lovastatin, 8 years after generic lovastatin was approved and 4 years after 2 additional statins, pravast...

Therapeutic cytapheresis: too many platelets, too many white blood cells.

Myeloproliferative disorders may present with thrombocytosis and/or leukocytosis with symptoms ranging from minor to life-threatening. Therapeutic cytapheresis (TC), the removal of excess and/or abnormal cells such as platelets and white blood cells, can be used to rapidly reduce cells in the symptomatic patient. The patient's clinical status determines the need for TC as symptoms may not corre...

Too many patients, too few cardiologists to care?

1Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto; 2Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute; 3Canadian Cardiovascular Society, Ottawa, Ontario; 4Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology; 5Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Correspondence: Dr H Ross, Toront...

Too few physicians, or too many?