To label or not? That was on the California ballot during last year's US elections, owing to a push from food safety advocates to have genetically modified food advertised as such, as has been standard in Europe for years. Those lined up in favor of the food labeling initiative argued that the consumer has a right to know what they're eating. But in a counterattack , a coalition of agribusiness...

In this issue of Pediatrics, Drolet and coauthors report the opinions of pediatric residency program directors about the 2011 resident workhour restrictions 1 year after implementation: “Resident education, quality of life, continuity of patient care have worsened, with no improvements in numerous areas including fatigue, patient safety, and supervision.” Do these opinions simply represent resi...

Correspondence to Dr Wolfgang Wagner; [email protected] The incidence of cancer is rising worldwide. In 2008 it happened to be some 12.7 million new cases (7.6 million cancer-related deaths), in 2030 it could be 20.3 million cases. Only the means of medicine could alter this trend with a concordantly increasing number of victims. A classical ‘conditio sine qua non’: There are also writers ...

IZINDABA 78 The office of President Thabo Mbeki took nearly 3 months merely to acknowledge an urgent letter from the South African Medical Association, pleading with him not to sign into law 'draconian' measures dictating where doctors may practise in future. Confirming this early in January, SAMA chairperson, Dr Kgosi Letlape, said doctors were in the 'catch 22' situation of being powerless to...

Taking the sting out of the anthrax vaccine Staff Sergeant Michael Murphy, of the Boone, Iowa, National Guard Reserve, is ready to do his duty when it comes time for members of his unit to get the next of six shots given over an 18-month period for anthrax vaccination. Although he is not entirely happy about it, he told the JCI, " I really don't have another choice other than get out, and I'm n...

Lan Xia is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Bentley College (e-mail: [email protected]). Kent B. Monroe is J.M. Jones Professor of Marketing, Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Champaign (e-mail: [email protected]). Jennifer L. Cox is Associate Brand Manager, John Deere Worldwide Commercial & Consumer Equipment (e-mail: [email protected]). The authors gratef...

16. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 10-16-121(l)(b) (1996). 27. Id. at § 10-16-121(l)(a). 28. Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 48.43.075(l)-(2) (West 1996). 29. See M. Conklin, '"Gag" Order Sparks Uproar: AMA Says Contract that Prevents Doctors from t)iscussing How They're Paid is Illegal," Rocky Mountain News, Mar. 24, 1997, at IB. 30. See "Denver Doctors: Protest Disclosure Clause in Contract," Health Line, Mar. 25...

that many of the legion of criticisms that have been placed at the door of the nbss simply do not hold up to scrutiny. But mud sticks, and so many observers who do not like the results of the nbss point again and again to the same " flaws. " One of Narod's most telling points is that the survival curves for the two arms of the Swedish trial continue to remain separate up to 29 years after the t...

ing examples are Mitchell and Keen in neurosurgery. The average army surgeon was sent back to civilian practice a better surgeon, with an increased respect for cleanliness and ventilation of the sick-room. Women who "nursed" the wounded began to feel the need for professional training. But these were advances within the individual and not within the body of medicine as a whole. Dr. Adams has do...

IN APRIL 1699, an unusual disturbance broke out in the streets of Cairo. As part of the annual pilgrimage caravan, which escorted Muslim pilgrims through the Sinai Desert to the holy cities of Arabia, a solemn procession was conveying a new silk covering destined for the Ka ba, or Sacred Shrine, in Mecca. Among the most notable participants were a group of North Africans, who created an uproar ...