Can We Improve Laboratory Testing for Anaphylaxis so it can have an Immediate Pragmatic Benefit?

Can we have it both ways?

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

We can deplete it, we have the technology

We can deplete it, we have the technology ore can be more, based on two comprehensive RNAi studies of motors and actin-regulating proteins in fly S2 cells—a particularly robust system for RNAi techniques and a convenient cell type for cytological studies. The first of the two papers, by Goshima and Vale (page 1003), examines the role of every fly kinesin during mitosis—the first such study done...

Trustworthy Software: Why we need it, Why we don't have it, How we can get it

We have become increasingly dependent on a national technological fabric that contains software, computers, and communication networks as essential components. Unfortunately, our ability to build affordable software systems for which there exists compelling evidence that the systems delivers their services in a manner that satisfies certain critical properties has not kept pace with the importa...

Immediate Care of Open Extremity Fractures: Where Can We Improve?

Clear guidelines are set by the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) on the preoperative management of open fractures. This as well as the clinical consequences of poor management of open fractures means the patient workup for surgery is important as well as the timing of surgery. Experience suggests few patient...