Editorial: Lessons Not Learned

Lessons (Not Yet) Learned

· Despite a significant influx of charitable dollars over the last 10 to 20 years, solutions to complex social problems remain elusive, while philanthropy has been facing growing pressure to account for its tax-free dollars; to demonstrate, replicate, and scale success; and to be transparent about failed social investments. · When foundations and their nonprofit partners ignore a failure and mo...

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Neuroimaging in headache: Lessons not learned.

In the 1980s as health care costs were burgeoning at remarkable speed, Dr David Eddy, an MD, PhD, bioengineer, and health care economist, was the first to apply Marcov models to clinical medicine, as well as the first to use and popularize the term ‘‘evidencebased medicine.’’ He wrote monthly articles in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (1) addressing inconsistency in medi...

Psychosocial Rehabilitation: Some Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster in Iran

Background: Disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. Psychosocial Rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. This research attempts to study some lessons learned from Psychosocial Rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in Iran. M...