The article by Goldberg and colleagues found in this issue is a meticulous history of the changes in incidence and in-hospital and long term case fatality rates of myocardial infarction (MI) for a defined New England community from 1975 to 1995 (1). The authors suggest that there is a decline in the incidence of acute MI as well as in the short term and one-year mortality in survivors postdisch...

This paper presents a survey of French Eastern English Channel fishers' observations of the past and current state of the marine ecosystem and their wishes for the future, as a first step towards formulating management objectives. Twenty-nine semi-directive interviews were carried out in June 2006 among fishers and shellfish farmers. Cognitive maps proved useful to formalise their experience an...

Author: Katie Schenk (independent consultant for JLICA) 2122 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Apt 614 Washington DC, 20008 USA Tel: +1 202 468 5537 Email: [email protected] Executive Summary: What have we learnt from evaluations of community OVC programmes? • Approaching twenty years after the first studies drew attention to the issues faced by children affected by HIV, evaluation data from OVC p...

FIVE YEARS AFTER THE INSTITUTE of Medicine (IOM) reported that as many as 98 000 people die annually as the result of medical errors and called for a national effort to make health care safe, it is time to assess our progress. Is health care safer now? And, if not, why not? The IOM’s report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, galvanized a dramatically expanded level of conversatio...

Hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) today is a well-known and largely applied technique to analyse polar compounds such as pharmaceuticals, metabolites, proteins, peptides, amino acids, oligonucleotides, carbohydrates. Due the large number of stationary phases employed for HILIC applications, this review aims help reader in choosing proper phase, which often represents critica...

The Pacific fisher (Martes pennanti) is a rare forest carnivore strongly associated with dense, old forest with high canopy cover for denning and resting. The Sierra Nevada population is very small, genetically distinct, and isolated. Mixed-severity wildland fire is assumed to be a potentially greater threat than logging, and land managers are conducting large-scale forest thinning operations u...

Spatial management tools, such as marine spatial planning and marine protected areas, are playing an increasingly important role in attempts to improve marine management and accommodate conflicting needs. Robust data are needed to inform decisions among different planning options, and early inclusion of stakeholder involvement is widely regarded as vital for success. One of the biggest stakehol...