Evaluating rehabilitation: An ongoing challenge

Refugee Health: An Ongoing Commitment and Challenge

Refugees represent a diverse group of displaced individuals with unique health issues and disease risks. The obstacles facing this population have their origins in war, violence, oppression, exploitation, and fear of persecution. Regardless of country of origin, a common bond exists, with refugees often confronting inadequate healthcare resources, xenophobia, discrimination, and a complex web o...

Transient loss of consciousness: an ongoing challenge.

Transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC) is a common clinical entity that affects patients and engrosses physicians and national healthcare systems. As a symptom, whether syncopal or nonsyncopal, T-LOC may lead to physical injury, while reducing patient’s self-confidence because of its sporadic and sometimes unpredictable nature. The elucidation of the mechanism and prognostic significance of T-...

Safe Drinking Water : an Ongoing Challenge

Rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease - the challenge to provide early and ongoing, evidence-based, patient-centred care.

Parkinson’s disease is a complex, progressive, multi-system disease associated with motor, cognitive and emotional impairments. On the basis of a review of evidencebased Parkinson’s disease guidelines and systematic reviews of non-pharmacological and non-surgical treatments, Domingos and colleagues1 offer a timely opinion statement providing physicians with guidelines promoting referral of peop...

Influenza Prevention in Solid Organ TransplantRecipients: An Ongoing Challenge

Background: Vaccination and immunosuppression are two processes that work in diametrically opposite ways creating an interesting paradox in the immunosuppressed individual. Though influenza vaccination has proven to be useful in allograft recipients the efficacy varies widely in different organ transplants withoverall lower antibody response as compared to the general population. Methods: Syste...