Editorial: Why knowing this matters

Why Risk Matters: Deriving Profit by Knowing the Unknown

This white paper discusses risk and risk management from a nontraditional viewpoint. It argues that the most critical aspect of risk management is an organization’s ability to understand and identify various kinds of risk that it faces. Further, the paper posits that this understanding of types of risk is even more important than the organization’s formal financial or operational plans, or trad...

Editorial The Socio - Geography of Heart Failure Why it Matters

Morbidity and mortality rates from heart failure are staggering and continue to pose daunting challenges to patients, providers, researchers, and the health care system. As populations age, the increasing burden of cardiovascular disease portends a humbling future, particularly for heart failure. Despite advances in medical care, heart failure prevalence, hospitalizations, and mortality rates h...

Clinical neurology: why this still matters in the 21st century

This review argues that even with the tremendous advances in diagnostic neuroimaging that the clinical skills involved in clinical neurology (ie, history, examination, localisation and differential diagnosis) remain key. Yet a number of recent audits suggest that large numbers of patients are failing to be assessed properly with a risk of patient harm, costly, unnecessary or inappropriate inves...

Editorial: soft matters.

In 1991, French scientist Pierre Gilles de Gennes received the Nobel Prize in Physics “for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers” [1]. Now credited as the “father” of soft matter, de Gennes showed how disparate problems at the interface of physics, chemis...

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