An Immortal Hero, an Enduring Challenge

An Immortal Hero, an Enduring Challenge

ure from Greek mythology for nearly 3 millennia. Central to his myth is the story cycle about the 12 presumably impossible labors he carried out for the loathed King Eurystheus. Sometimes overlooked is that Hercules performed those tasks as penance for having murdered his own wife and children during a fit of madness. For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to capture the vicious Erym...

Statistical Forecasting of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: An Enduring Challenge

Gossypiboma – the retained surgical swab: An enduring clinical challenge

Retained abdominal swabs remain a difficult problem. This review highlights the risk factors and index pathology, as well as markers that raise clinical suspicion, of a condition that may be elusive in presentation on account of its otherwise nonspecific signs and symptoms. A review of the English literature reporting retained abdominal swabs between 1992 and 2012 revealed 100 cases. Fifty-six ...

Evidence-based rural workforce policy: an enduring challenge.

David Wilkinson is Professor of Health Sciences, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Australia. He was Foundation Chair in Rural health at University of Adelaide and University of South Australia between 1999 and 2002, and is an Editorial Board Member of Rural and Remote Health. In their article Rural origin and rural medical expos...

Divorce: An International Multi-dimensional Challenge

  Divorce is one the most important public health problems which may affect many people especially parents, children, and their close relatives. To emphasize the importance of divorce worldwide, the world figures of some countries have been compared. According to transition from a traditional ...