Is health only skin‐deep?

Is health only skin-deep?

The USA is witnessing a growing debate about the apparent disparities between the health status of white Americans and racial minorities, most notably African Americans and Hispanics. In 1993, the US government admitted that there are significant differences and responded by establishing the Minority Health Initiative to investigate and redress these discrepancies. The National Cancer Institute...

Pediatric Health Mobility: Is it Only an Italian Problem?

Intra-regional, extra-regional and international health mobility are important phenomena for regional and national healthcare planning. Pediatric data on this topic are scarce. We therefore conducted a systematic literature search on the PubMed database. Because of the insufficiency of published data we also resorted to conference proceedings and publications retrieved by Google Scholar and Goo...

Only Female Age, and Not Blood Type, Is Associated with Ovarian Reserve

The Only Constant Is Change

describe how software has penetrated so many of the systems and services that we as consumers often take for granted—airliners, mass transit, and washing machines—where it lies hidden in plain sight. Meanwhile, many of our other authors frequently write about the enabling technologies that have allowed software to become so influential—the methods, tools, and practices that enable software deve...

Change is the only constant.

‘Change’ is a word we hear a lot these days, especially when it comes to fundamental reforms in the Australian health industry. As this issue goes to print there is much discussion around the national health reform agenda, in particular the recently announced National Health and Hospitals Network. Over the next 12 months the merits and drawbacks of the reforms will be discussed and debated by p...