Dangerous? Necessary: we must conserve all our native fauna

Vitamin D Supplementation: We Must Not Fail Our Children!

There is increasing concern that vitamin D deficiency poses a major health problem for children. Deficiency can cause hypocalcemic seizures, growth disturbances, and rickets and may influence diabetes, cardiovascular dysfunction, autoimmune diseases, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. Reduced vitamin D levels in children presenting to pediatric orthopedic services are common.In the ...

Child abuse--we must increase our level of suspicion.

CHILD abuse is often obvious. Occasionally, however its manifestations are not recognised or are easily overlooked. This paper describes three children to whom there was serious child abuse and in each there was a variable degree of diagnostic difficulty. The case reports are presented and comments offered which may help in the recognition and management of future cases. Several common adverse ...

'In God we trust, all others (must) bring data'.

Equality in Education - Why We Must Go All The Way

In this paper I present and defend a highly demanding principle of justice in education that has not been seriously discussed thus far. According to the suggested approach, “all the way equality”, justice in education requires nothing short of equal educational outcome between all individual students. This means not merely between equally able children, or between children from different groups...

Endovascular stroke trials: why we must enroll all eligible patients.

I s it appropriate to enroll into a clinical trial (and hence randomize to either medical or endovascular therapy) a 45-year-old patient who presents within 3 hours of onset of disabling symptoms resulting from a left M1 occlusion? This is the question many of us have faced in the course of the past few months because multiple new trials of endo-vascular stroke therapy have been launched on the...