A Stormy Debate

Law and psychiatry: a stormy marriage.

The domestic tranquility of the law and forensic psychiatry has been disturbed recently by an escalated request that psychiatric experts be excluded from court trials. Still, separation of the parties is not imminent and divorce seems unthinkable, although disharmony exists. Disquiet over psychiatric testimony is not new; numerous judicial statements can be found in case law over the years rema...

Hydrogen from Stormy Oceans

Stormy weather for Labour's NHS reforms.

“Stormy waters ahead”: global emergence of carbapenemases

Carbapenems, once considered the last line of defense against of serious infections with Enterobacteriaceae, are threatened with extinction. The increasing isolation of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative pathogens is forcing practitioners to rely on uncertain alternatives. As little as 5 years ago, reports of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae, common causes of both community and healt...

Debate Debate

Geocomputation is an emerging field of research that advocates the use of computationally intensive techniques such as neural networks, heuristic search, and cellular automata for spatial data analysis. Since increasing amounts of health-related data are collected within a geographical frame of reference, geocomputational methods show increasing potential for health data analysis. This paper pr...