Re-purposive Use of Drugs in COVID-19: A Wake-up Call

Elder abuse--a wake up call.

Challenging Safety Regulation – a Wake-up Call

In presenting a framework for tackling these issues, the paper examines current safety practices. In particular it challenges, from a theoretical perspective, and by reference to recent research, two common misconceptions that safety is largely a matter of equipment reliability and that process-based assurance can provide adequate evidence of system safety. It argues that failure to address the...

A clear 'wake-up call' from Korea

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) first occurred in Jordan in April 2012, began spreading in Saudi Arabia as of September 2012, and recently emerged in Ko...

A wake-up call for nutrition labelling.

In 2011, the European Union issued a new regulation on the provision of information on food for consumers (1). The regulation includes new directives for the provision of nutrition information on processed foods. In response, a number of food manufacturers and retailers recently committed themselves to harmonize the nutrition information on their products (2). In the USA in 2011, the Institute ...

Hot flashes in a young girl: a wake-up call concerning Serenoa repens use in children.

Extracts of the plant Serenoa repens are widely used in male adults for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Recently, therapy with S repens has been proposed as a "natural" alternative to conventional treatments for male androgenetic alopecia as well as for other hair disorders. Telogen effluvium is a form of alopecia characterized by abnormality of hair cycling, resulting in excessi...