Beyond science: the salt debate

Beyond science: the salt debate.

How safe is unilateral nephrectomy?

1 report on their studies of the long-term consequences of unine-phrectomy (UNx) in male and female rats. This is an excellent study with very interesting implications to science, as well as clinical practice. The investigators studied the effects of UNx over 18 months, a long period of time given the relatively short life span of the rat. They noted that the males appeared to be more sensitive...

Code of Ethics of medical informatics in Asia and America

Nowadays, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in health care with the aim of creating tools for diagnosing and treating diseases has proposed a new debate on the code of ethics. The raised ethical issues are beyond privacy and security, and have been the most important sources of debate and ethical questions in these professions.  

The salt debate--more salacious than salubrious.

Dietary salt reduction as the primary lifestyle strategy to reduce blood pressure has been aggressively promoted by activist groups such as the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and World of Action on Salt and Health (WASH), as well as the CDC, WHO, the IOM and more recently, the FDA. Even the White House has weighed in by placing pressure on many influential food industry stakeh...

Seeing the world through a third eye: Developmental systems theory looks beyond the nativist-empiricist debate.

In response to the commentaries on our paper (Spencer et al., 2009) we summarize what a developmental systems perspective offers for a twenty-first century science of development by highlighting five insights from developmental systems theory. Where applicable, the discussion is grounded in a particular example-the emergence of ocular dominance columns in early development. Ocular dominance col...