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Why Florence Nightingale still matters.

THIS YEAR WE CELEBRATE the International Year of the Nurse to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Florence Nightingale' s death. On August 15, 1910, her obituary in The New York Times concluded with this observation: " Perhaps the greatest good that has resulted from her noble life has been the setting in motion of a force which has led thousands of women to devote themselves to systematic ...

Why we still need grant peer review.

B ollen et al [1] propose a novel mechanism for allocating research funds that first distributes all available funds equally among all practising scientists and then requires them to transfer a portion of their annual funds to other scientists of their choice. This distributed mechanism, the authors suggest, will substantially reduce the cost of funding allocation, by making proposal drafting a...

Why carbon pricing matters By WBCSD

Clinical neurology: why this still matters in the 21st century

This review argues that even with the tremendous advances in diagnostic neuroimaging that the clinical skills involved in clinical neurology (ie, history, examination, localisation and differential diagnosis) remain key. Yet a number of recent audits suggest that large numbers of patients are failing to be assessed properly with a risk of patient harm, costly, unnecessary or inappropriate inves...

Treatment-as-prevention in AIDS control: Why communication still matters

Treatment-as-prevention is a term used to describe an HIV prevention method that uses antiretroviral treatment to minimize the chance of HIV transmission, with the idea that treatment can decrease the viral load of those infected to a level where transmission risk is minimal. However, for treatment-as-prevention to be a success, individuals must get tested, know their status, seek care, and adh...