Why we should be concerned about UK female genital mutilation laws and associated monitoring and reporting systems: a reply to ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women’ by Richard Shweder

Should we be concerned about herbal remedies.

During the latter part of this century the practice of herbalism has become mainstream throughout the world. This is due in part to the recognition of the value of traditional medical systems, particularly of Asian origin, and the identification of medicinal plants from indigenous pharmacopeias that have been shown to have significant healing power, either in their natural state or as the sourc...

We need to stop female genital mutilation!

Over the next decade around 30 million girls under age 15 are at risk of FGM/C. Given that there is no physical benefit for the girls and acknowledging that FGM/C involves physical, psychological, social and reproductive harm, we, along with major international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations find FGM/C a severe violation of human rights [1]. We must encourage vigor...

Should Priority Setting Also Be Concerned About Profound Socio-Economic Transformations? A Response to Recent Commentary

High on-treatment platelet reactivity--why should we be concerned?

Antiplatelet drugs are the cornerstone in prevention and treatment of atherothrombotic vessel occlusions, i.e. myocardial infarction and stroke. The introduction of clopidogrel and its use in dual antiplatelet treatment (DAPT) has substantially reduced both the incidence and mortality of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and has improved the efficacy of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) (1...

Temporal-Awareness in SLAs: Why Should We Be Concerned?

Traditionally, Service Level Agreements have been decomposed in two sets of properties: functionals (what) and non-functionals (how). However, in our opinion, there has been a third key element that has had a minor attention from academy: temporal awareness (when). We believe temporality is a main concern that should be addressed in realistic scenarios. In doing so, this position paper discuss ...