The 2016 Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer® in San Diego, CA highlighted very important health policy and socioeconomic issues affecting SGO members. During the annual Member Forum on Monday, March 21, 2016, attendees were informed of the activites and goals of four special SGO Taskforces: Coding and Reimbursement, The Future of Physician Payment Reform, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, and P...

This narrative report describes the underlying rationale and technical developments of NeuroMind, a mobile clinical decision support system for neurosurgery. From the perspective of a neurosurgeon - (app) developer it explains how technical progress has shaped the world's "most rated and highest rated" neurosurgical mobile application, with particular attention for operating system diversity on...

This article develops a diagnostic lens to make sense of the still baffling development ‘humanitarian marketplace’. Ambivalently hybrid initiatives such as volunteer tourism, corporate social responsibility or even fair trade do not strictly obey distributive logic market exchange, reciprocity philanthropic giving. They engender type ‘economy’ that must be apprehended in its own terms. The argu...

The extraordinary actions of a particular father and son became a popular topic of literati writers during late-Qing times and furthermore fueled an ongoing intellectual dispute. The father, Gong Zizhen 龔自珍 (1792–1841), was a renowned scholar credited by Liang Qichao 梁啟超 (1873–1929) for having initiated the important late-Qing intellectual turn from excessive evidential research to discussions ...

Abstract Political realists’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach political moralists (mainstream liberals), has raised concerns about their own source normativity. Some realists have responded to such by theorizing a distinctively According this view, politics is seen as an autonomous, independent domain with its evaluative standards. Therefore, it in source, rather than some mor...

This article from Patton and Olin at the Risk Science Institute of the International Life Sciences Institute provides timely and useful guidance for regulatory agency executives and research managers in response to the Office of Management and Budget/Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB/OIRA) bulletins on peer review for information quality.(1) The segmentation into nine steps for ...