Multicenter therapeutic trials have demonstrated clearly the efficacy and safety of antihypertensive therapy. Such studies were designed initially to demonstrate the effectiveness of antihypertensive therapy in preventing complications and fatalities from hypertensive disease. Over the three decades since these studies were instituted, succeeding trials have become more sophisticated in design,...

Is su e Br ie f ® • This Issue Brief analyzes recent literature about trends in the employment-based health care benefits system, proposed “market-driven” approaches to health care financing, and implications for consumers of the effect of rising costs on employment-based benefits. It examines the readiness of consumers to become more responsible for making health care financing decisions on th...

The paper looks into the consumer perception and attitudes towards green cars. A questionnaire was designed with a sample size of 157 in area of Mumbai. The objectives of research is to determine perception of Green Cars in the minds of the average Indian Consumer, to ascertain the attitudes of people towards alternatively fueled vehicles and to ascertain the qualities that consumers look for i...

There is increasing political and consumer pressure on professions, which have a degree of monopoly of service, to ensure that their members are competent to practise. One means of maintaining competence is the requirement of professionals to undertake professional development activities throughout their practising careers. Options reviewed are: voluntary attendance at continuing education acti...

In this article, David Buckingham addresses the challenges media educators face in dealing with postmodern media culture. Buckingham begins by outlining the nature of contemporary developments in children’s media environments and how these relate to broader changes in their social status. He argues that these developments represent a fundamental challenge to the modernist project of media educa...