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...were not anticipating such a dramatic reduction," said lead author Dr. Atul Gawande, an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and staff writer for the New Yorker. "We had initially planned the size of the study to pick up a 15% reduction in complications...
Although having the checklist on hand improved compliance by surgical teams - 57% of the teams involved in the study carried out all six checklist items, up from 34% before the study began - there were many teams that did not adhere completely to the list. That's why Dr. Peter Pronovost, who won a MacArthur "genius" award for creating the concept of medical checklists and studying them in intensive-care units, remains skeptical of the study's remarkable results. "I wish checklists were Harry Potter's magic wand, but they're not," he says. "The behavior changed trivially, not enough...
...these findings reason enough to ask mothers of premature girls to start popping fish-oil capsules? Probably not, says Dr. David Adamkin, director of neonatal medicine at University of Louisville. "This study looks at giving babies nutrients that we know they don't get enough of in utero because they are born too early," he says. "While an 18-month follow up is okay, an eight-year follow up is going to be much better. We need more time to see if these differences are really going to persist...
...high propensity for victimization via violation of Article 7.But what does this mean to the Senegalese state and the 94 percent of its citizens following Shar’ia law? To them, gay rights assaults Islamic virtue and communal integrity, and the HRW claims are simply ethical imperialism. Dr. Onuma Yasuaki, University of Tokyo law professor, notes that “for those who have experienced colonial rule and interventions under such beautiful slogans as humanity and civilization”, human rights look like more slogans to rationalize intervention. Human rights are tough to traffic wholesale. As for the case...
Israeli military officials allege that at the start of the conflict, Hamas' commanders took refuge in the basement of Gaza's main hospital, Shifa, knowing that Israel would never risk the international outrage that would result from bombing a hospital. But Shifa's director, Dr. Hussain Ashaur, denied the allegation and allowed TIME to tour the basement, which was teeming with patients waiting for X-rays and ultrasounds. "Every room was busy with patients and doctors. It always is," said TIME's Azmy Keshawi...