Maintaining Weight Loss: an Ongoing Challenge

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-...

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...

Safe Drinking Water : an Ongoing Challenge

Who succeeds in maintaining weight loss? A conceptual review of factors associated with weight loss maintenance and weight regain.

Weight loss is difficult to achieve and maintaining the weight loss is an even greater challenge. The identification of factors associated with weight loss maintenance can enhance our understanding for the behaviours and prerequisites that are crucial in sustaining a lowered body weight. In this paper we have reviewed the literature on factors associated with weight loss maintenance and weight ...

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...