LIMINAL NURSES URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

Drug policy for methamphetamine use urgently needed.

Obstetric Pharmacokinetic Dosing Studies are Urgently Needed

Use of pharmacotherapy during pregnancy is common and increasing. Physiologic changes during pregnancy may significantly alter the overall systemic drug exposure, necessitating dose changes. A search of PubMed for pharmacokinetic clinical trials showed 494 publications during pregnancy out of 35,921 total pharmacokinetic published studies (1.29%), from the late 1960s through August 31, 2013. Cl...

Mental health systems research is urgently needed

Recent developments, including experience related to the development of WHO's World Health Report 2001, the WHO Atlas and the DCP Project related to Mental, Neurological, Developmental and Substance Abuse Disorders, indicate why advancing the interests of mental health is now so compelling. In order to deliver a high standard of mental health treatment and care WHO emphasizes the adoption of an...

Urgently needed: voices for integrity in public policy making.

Society needs strong voices to promote public health and the integrity of policymaking processes. This is especially critical given the dominant paradigm of marketbased solutions and the increasing conversion by transnational corporations of their economic power into political power. Nicky Hager‘s recent book Dirty Politics exposed an apparent systemic approach being used by the tobacco, alcoho...

New research and development strategy for tuberculosis diagnostics urgently needed.

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