Digestive Disease as an Economic Problem

Economic Development as Problem Solving

There has been a vast recent literature which has emphasized the role of human capital and knowledge on the economic growth process. This paper presents a model where the knowledge occurs through solving "problems." These problems which are partially idiosyncratic to the country. We think of a problem as a new technique or good. Each nation must master the problems associated with an activity i...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool

Mastitis Is an Economic Problem

Mastitis is an economic problem. As with many other cattle diseases, the economic damage of mastitis, either clinical or sub-clinical, can be brought down to a few categories: milk production losses, drugs, discarded milk, veterinarian, labour, milk quality, culling, clinical mastitis, sub-clinical mastitis and other diseases. Management decisions can be taken at various levels: the quarter lev...

Digestive Disease Week.

We review key sessions on pharmacological treatment, including four on irritable bowel syndrome and others on pancreatitis and Helicobacter pylori infection.

Digestive Disease Week.

antiviral agents, many patients face barriers to access. In our Advances in Hepatology column, Dr David E. Bernstein discusses factors that are restricting the use of these lifesaving therapies. A feature article by Drs Nicolas A. Villa and M. Edwyn Harrison describes the diagnosis, classification, and management of biliary strictures, a common complication of liver transplantation. Although bi...