Eliminating the Lost Call

Let's call it "aphasia": Rationales for eliminating the term "dysphasia".

Health professionals, researchers, and policy makers often consider the two terms aphasia and dysphasia to be synonymous. The aim of this article is to argue the merits of the exclusive use of the term aphasia and present a strategy for creating change through institutions such as the WHO-ICD. Our contention is that one term avoids confusion, speech-language pathologists prefer aphasia, scholar...

A Call to Action: Eliminating Diabetes Disparities in Native Communities

M ore than 5.2 million American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people live in the United States today (1). Spread mostly throughout the western United States and Alaska, many live mainly on or near reservations and rural communities. The AI/AN population is incredibly diverse, representing 566 federally recognized tribes (2). AI/AN people are disproportionately affected by diabetes. According...

Lost fundamentals in neurosciences--a call for discussion.

Eliminating childhood lead toxicity in Australia: a call to lower the intervention level.

493 MJA 197 (9) · 5 November 2012 now estimated to affect around 400000 people, or 2% of the population.3 Liver cancer survival remains among the lowest of all cancers, with only 16% of people still alive 5 years after diagnosis. By 2007, liver cancer had become the 11th most common cause of cancer death of Australians.1 For the first time, the new AIHW report indicates that primary liver cance...

Architecture, City and Mathematics: The Lost Connection

The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece. The mysterious Pythagorean cosmology pursued as secret esoteric knowledge was related to the search of rhythm, proportionality and harmony. Even somewhat earlier, Greek mysteries were based on ...