Need to Take Firm Action

An Audit of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis: Time to Take Action

Willingness to take action toward climate change in Agriculture Experts in Khuzestan Province.

Greenhouse emissions from agricultural as a consequence of human activities are causing climate change. Small changes in agricultural practices have a large potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Intention of Agriculture Experts in order to mitigation climate change Can play an important role in finding appropriate solutions for each region in climate change mitigation and deliver the...

Dignity in care: time to take action.

Providing care for patients and caring about patients should go hand in hand. Caring implicates our fundamental attitude towards patients, and our ability to convey kindness, compassion and respect. Yet all too often, patients and families experience health care as impersonal, mechanical; and quickly discover that patienthood trumps personhood. The consequences of a medical system organized aro...

Ebola Virus: The need to take some preventive measures

Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a viral infectious disease. This virus has caused a number of outbreaks since its discovery in 1976 but the current West African outbreak is the biggest of all.1,2 Currently five countries in the West Africa are affected by this deadly disease viz, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Mali. Mali is the newest to join the list of the affected African nations. M...

The need to take a 'new look' at emergency contraception.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(1) Background New developments in hormonal emergency contraception (EC) are likely to cause us to rethink both service delivery and the advice that we give to patients about ongoing contraception. ellaOne® [30 mg ulipristal acetate (UPA)] has been marketed since October 2009 and is the subject of a previous commentary in this Journal.1 Biomedical st...