Meeting commentary

Commentary. Radiation dose in CT: are we meeting the challenge?

What challenge? CT has developed dramatically: scanning is faster, images are better, applications have grown and, of course, radiation doses have come down, have they not? Well, no, actually; quite the contrary in fact. When CT was new it was appreciated that it was a relatively high dose technique but there was overriding clinical justification for using it; in the brain no technique could ap...

Commentary Meeting The Medical Needs Of Adults Public Psychiatric Facilities

Meeting commentary--"medicines for older adults: learning from practice to develop patient centric drug products".

A meeting jointly organised by the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSGB), the Geriatric Medicine Society and the UCL School of Pharmacy took place on the 13th of March 2013, in Stevenage, UK. The meeting was attended by a number of experts involved with the treatment and development of drugs for the older adult, including clinicians, pharmacists, academics, regulators and representatives f...

Commentary: UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases: an opportunity for whom?

Meeting the Challenge of Diabetes in China

China’s estimated 114 million people with diabetes pose a massive challenge for China’s health policy-makers who have significantly extended health insurance coverage over the past decade. What China is doing now, what it has achieved, and what remains to be done should be of interest to health policy-makers, worldwide. We identify the challenges posed by China’s two pr...