Are We Ready to Try to Cure Alkaptonuria?

Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?

The year 2016 could turn out to be a turning point for global health, new political realities and global insecurities will test governance and financing mechanisms in relation to both people and planet. But most importantly political factors such as the global power shift and “the rise of the rest” will define the future of global health. A new mix of health inequity and security challenges has...

Are we ready to define central hypopneas?

Are we ready to assess young athletes?

1. Peidro R, Froelicher V, Stein R. Triagem pré-participação do atleta jovem: é essa a hora para um consenso? Arq Bras Cardiol. 2011;96(3):e50-e52. 2. Matos LDNJ, Pastore CA, Samesima N, Franco FGM. Alterações do eletrocardiograma de repouso com o treinamento físico. In: Negrão CE, Barretto ACP, ed. Cardiologia do exercício: do atleta ao cardiopata. 3aed. São Paulo: Editora Manole; 2010. p. 177...

Actions for dynamical fermion simulations: are we ready to go?

No doubt, the lattice approach to quantum field theory has established itself as an integral part of high energy theoretical physics and has produced many results that are relevant to understand or even construct quantum field theories, as well as for phenomenology helping to interpret experimentally obtained data. Still, we are by far not at the end of the story. Serious dynamical fermion simu...

Are we ready to avert suicide in intracerebral hemorrhage?

See related article, pages 1730–1734. Stroke ranks third among all causes of death behind diseases of the heart and cancer.1 Stroke accounts for about 1 in 16 deaths in the United States. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) comprises between 8% to 14% of all strokes but carries a mortality rate of up to 50% within the first 6 months after onset.1 Functional outcome of ICH survivors is po...