Meeting the Challenge of NCD: We Cannot Wait

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...

Otolaryngology workforce planning: why we cannot wait for perfect data.

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...

P11-Why Cannot We Assess Aptitude in Iran

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Penicillin: meeting the challenge

never flagged and this brief book, comprising thirteen lectures that he gave during his career, indicates the depth and commitment with which he continued to study this ubiquitous and extraordinary microorganism , adding to the gift of medical knowledge that has come from detailed study of this pathogen. Yet, we must conclude with the paradox that despite the intensity and depth of our knowledg...