retrospective and prospective studies looking at the role of cerebrospinal fluid pressure (csfp)/intracranial pressure (icp) have stimulated new theories and hypotheses regarding the underlying causal events for glaucoma. most recently, studies supporting a low csfp/icp as a risk factor for glaucoma have been published. this review summarizes the current understanding of csfp/icp and its potent...

politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. civil society moveme...

Developing intergenerational connections in Manchester Looking back Looking forward 0 Although we may not use the term, all of us enter into intergenerational relationships. As parents, grandparents, children, politicians even, our lives revolve around mutual support and care. The sharing of knowledge and expertise between the generations is the hallmark of healthy, sustainable communities, cre...

I take the reins of IEEE Internet Computing after 10 years of the magazine's existence, and a crazy 10 years it has been — if not for the magazine itself, then for the Internet. With my first column as editor in chief, I'd like to look back at the past decade and how the magazine has evolved along with the Internet. I picked the column heading, All Systems Go, to highlight one of these evolutio...

OBJECTIVES Provide a critical summary of the latest interpretation of findings from the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT). METHODS Findings from PCPT and recently published post-hoc analyses are reviewed. RESULTS PCPT demonstrated that finasteride can reduce the prevalence of prostate cancer, permitted the first large-scale assessment of the performance characteristics of prostate-spe...