Disaster Medicine: Future Challenges

Ergonomics and occupational medicine: future challenges.

Ergonomics has come a long way since the birth of the subject some 50 years ago. It now has an established research base and an appropriate portfolio of methodologies. A brief overview of the subject's development will be presented, with a particular focus on the contribution of ergonomics to our understanding of work related musculoskeletal disorders. Future challenges are also considered in t...

Research into complementary medicine: some future challenges.

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

History of Disaster Medicine

Erik Noji, mentioned, tongue in cheek, Noah as the first disaster manager during a lecture in 2005. The canonical description of "The Genesis Flood" does describe Noah as a master planner and executer of an evacuation of biblical proportions. After gaining knowledge of a potential catastrophic disaster he planned and executed an evacuation to mitigate the effects of the "Genesis Flood" by build...

Disease Biomarkers for Precision Medicine: Challenges and Future Opportunities

Center for Health Genomics and Informatics, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1, Canada Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Department of Health Technology and Informatics, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region CAS Key Labora...