antedates pregnancy, is a cause of increased perinatal mortality1-3 while the role of gestational diabetes in perinatal mortality remains doubtful.4 Although the multidisciplinary approach to the management of these diabetic pregnant patients remains the key to successful outcome; the obstetrician who has had some exposure to the management of diabetes might occasionally be faced with managing ...

AS: My interest in inequality, which goes back to my school days, was initially quite fixed on class divisions. My involvement with gender inequality grew more slowly. There was much greater concentration on class in standard politics (including standard student politics), and when in the early 1950s I was studying at Presidency College in Calcutta, it was taken for granted that class divisions...

Continuing professional development (CPD), also known as continuing medical education, has been around since the earliest days of institutionalized medical instruction. After graduation from medical schools, physicians continued to learn by meeting with their peers. Hospital-based grand rounds, case discussions, and meetings to discuss published medical papers made up the bulk of the continuing...

Goal: After completing this continuing education article the reader will be able to: understand the importance of ensuring appropriate leadership support and operational infrastructure are dedicated to the improvement of safe medication use, describe the importance of proper alignment between medication safety principles and front-line practice, and develop an initial plan for improving medicat...