Metals shortage prompts Europe to seek solutions

Financial Deprivation Prompts Consumers to Seek Scarce Goods

Consumers assess their well-being subjectively, largely by comparing the present state of their lives to the state of comparable others and to their own state earlier in time. The authors suggest that consumers similarly assess their financial wellbeing, and when these evaluations highlight a deficit in their financial position, they pursue strategies that mitigate the associated sense of finan...

Maasai couples seek safer solutions to infertility.

Bull World Health Organ 2010;88:885–886 | doi:10.2471/BLT.10.031210 Infertility is a public health problem that affects all societies, not least traditional ones such as the Maasai of East Africa. In this Bulletin interview, Weiyuan Cui talks to Dr Yadira Roggeveen, a medical officer at Endulen Hospital in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the United Republic of Tanzania. Maasai couples seek ...

Challenges of Organ Shortage for Transplantation: Solutions and Opportunities

Organ shortage is the greatest challenge facing the field of organ transplantation today. A variety of approaches have been implemented to expand the organ donor pool including live donation, a national effort to expand deceased donor donation, split organ donation, paired donor exchange, national sharing models and greater utilization of expanded criteria donors. Increased public awareness, im...

The nursing shortage and potential solutions: an overview.

Successfully solving the nephrology nursing shortage will require multiple strategies on national and local levels. Retaining current nephrology nurses is a key strategy. In addition, we, as a specialty, must help recruit people into nursing, and recruit student nurses and graduate nurses into the field of nephrology nursing. This article will describe the national nursing shortage and discuss ...

An ANNA invitational summit: nephrology nursing shortage and solutions.