Robert Is Here

H1N1 influenza is here.

On 11 June WHO announced that the spread of H1N1 had reached pandemic phase 6. Since then countries around the world have increased their planning and preparedness for the continuing pandemic. Guidelines have been issued and circulated but confusion continues over their interpretation. We need to remind ourselves of the principles behind control measures and educate and reinforce standard infec...

Shale is here again.

What do we know about ageing at work? Evidence-based fitness for duty and health in fire fighters. The current enthusiasm for fracking takes me back to the oil crisis of the late 1970s. I had been asked to see a post-thoracotomy patient and, when he recovered, found that his lesion had been pneumoconiotic. When I enquired which mine he worked in, he told me that it had been a shale mine and sin...

The Future Is Virtually Here

I ncreasingly popular for more than a decade, massively multiplayer online role-playing games now generate remarkable revenues. The current king of MMORPGs, World of Warcraft, boasts 10 million active subscribers as of early 2008. Developed by Blizzard, WoW hosts a virtual population larger than the real-world populations of countries such as Sweden and Hungary. In addition to population number...

Computerized Estimating is Really Here

E d i t o r ’ s N o t e : G e o r g e M . Llewellyn is President and cofounder of Estimation, Inc. and also, over the period of the last fourteen years, has been active in the development and improvement of computerized estimating and job management programs. Mr. Llewellyn, author of many articles on the subject, has served as consultant to workshop programs held by universities and colleges of...

hpv is here to stay.