We Must Normalize and Better Support Parenting During Medical Training

We must--and we can--do better.

Mother's milk still best--and we must do better.

Snakebite and Acute Kidney Injury: We Must do Better!

Snakebite is one of the most neglected public health issues in rural areas causing significant death and disability. Actual burden of snakebite remains elusive due to serious under-reporting. Majority of victims die even before reaching hospital [1,2]. South Asia is the most heavily affected region of the globe. The highest figures reported from Asia, so far, come from a community-based survey ...

Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers

Svea Closser and Rashid Jooma argue that achieving polio eradication and strengthening Pakistan's health system must focus not just on international engagement but also on local partnerships with Lady Health Workers and other ground-level staff. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

With Oral Chemotherapy, We Simply Must Do Better!

PROBLEM: Many health care organizations have focused on improving safety with parenteral chemotherapy but have done less to ensure safe practices with oral chemotherapy. Although oral chemotherapy is associated with ease of administration, an error with an oral agent can be just as deadly as an error with a parenteral formulation. Two years ago Ruth Ann Collins, a 60-year-old woman with a histo...