Is the HYPE about strength warranted?

Is Medical Concern about Hookah Environmental Tobacco Smoke Hazards Warranted ?

This paper reviews the present knowledge about the nature of hookah (narghile, shisha) ETS and, in the light of the controversy over the actual health effects of cigarette ETS, concludes that the former should not be hyperbolised in an unscientific way as, unfortunately, a WHO report suggests.

Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?

Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase performance only if critical regions are data independent—concurrent critical sections access disjoint data most of the time. Optimistic synchronization primitives, such as transactional memory, will improve the performanc...

Informing our elders about dialysis: is an age-attuned approach warranted?

As the fastest growing sector of the incident ESRD population, older patients constitute a group for which renal replacement therapy has special implications. Older CKD patients have unique needs by virtue of advanced age, high prevalence of comorbid conditions, slower progression of renal disease, and reduced survival. Burdens and risks attendant to dialysis may be amplified in the older patie...

Fieldwork Supervision: More Education Is Warranted

The consensus within our profession is that the fieldwork experience plays an integral role in an occupational therapist's professional development. In 1923, the first educational standards requiring fieldwork experiences were approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Today, in addition to academic course work, 6 months of supervised fieldwork is a required prerequisite f...

Prosecuting for knowingly transmitting HIV is warranted.