Concerns raised over autism prediction paper

Concerns continue over mercury and autism.

Stehr-Green et al. have misrepresented my work and confused the debate over autism and mercury exposure with ecologic data from Sweden and Denmark. Their report has many flaws. Four stand out. Their description of the California data promotes complacency regarding autism rates. For an Institute of Medicine (IOM) review, I presented an ecologic analysis of autism rates and mercury exposure demon...

Concerns raised by lung size-mismatched transplantation.

Correspondence 4 . Villiot-Danger JC , Villiot-Danger E , Borel JC , Pépin JL , Wuyam B , Vergès JS . Respiratory muscle endurance training in obese patients . Int J Obes (Lond) . 2011 ; 35 ( 5 ): 692 699 . 5 . National Institutes of Health Clinical Center . Obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and exercise training (OBEX1). NCT01155271. ClinicalTrials.gov . Bethesda, MD:...

Concerns raised about Ontario's new regime for bariatric surgery.

Paper Audit Trails and Voters' Privacy Concerns

Advances in information technology have simplified many processes in our lives. However, in many cases trust issues arise when new technology is introduced, and voting is one prominent example. To increase voters’ trust, current e-voting systems provide paper audit trails (PATs) which enable automatic tally and/or manual audit of the election result. PATs may contain only the encrypted vote or ...

Concerns over predictability of supply and quality

Concerns over Predictability of Supply and Quality Invited Abstract Carl Bowen AMD Adaptive test seems a logical solution to address the challenge of increasing IP complexity and shrinking test time budgets. Might slow adoption be a consequence of the Engineering community focus on technical implementation methods, at the expense of addressing the emotional concerns of the Quality and Supply Ch...