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Food, physical activity and mental health: A call for action!!!

Food is a basic need and a subject of contestation. What we eat is constructed and has cultural, emotional, political and economic significance. As with many other areas of health, explanations for differences in food and dietary related behaviors...

Breast Cancer patients should have the right to a second opinion and consecutive action, regarding oncoplastic surgery

In Europe, effective cancer treatment is provided in specialized centers, which are focused on increasing survival rates. Fortunately, survival rates are indeed rising and now this increased number of cancer survivors require that more attention be paid to questions...

The risks of text messaging in hospitals & healthcare environments

The adoption of mobile technology within healthcare environments has increased significantly in recent years, as more and more clinicians turn to their devices to coordinate care and manage patient health outcomes. With an estimated 95% of Americans now owning...

Amblyopia and the brain

Vision occurs in the brain, not the eye. Our eyes convert light into a signal that the brain makes sense of, but sight actually occurs in the brain. During childhood, an eye defect – such as one eye being out...

Can Artificial Intelligence Eliminate man in medicine

1. What are the key challenges faced with Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual and Augmented reality taking center stage of future professional decisions? While there is great promise in the technology in specific use cases, it will likely take time for...

Benefits of Lasers for Kidney Stones

Kidney stones are a chronic problem that affects 1 in 11 people.1 In recent decades, treatment paradigms for this common problem have undergone transformative changes. The first procedural intervention was open surgery, which is largely not performed today. A...

Natural History of Diabetes

This editorial is a response to many and many requests to submit a paper on diabetes although I never treated diabetes except for a few subjects. I treated many reversible pathological conditions by teaching a meal pattern prompted by...

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