Arsenic controversy needs conclusion

One conclusion emerges from Interphone study: controversy will continue.

The 13-nation Interphone study was supposed to establish, once and for all, whether a link between cell phone use and brain tumors exists. But after 10 years and more than $25 million, the only clear message to emerge was that more research was needed. The study, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer sponsored and the International Journal of Epidemiology reported last month, sp...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Within half a century hospitals for children had become established features of the British medical landscape. By 1900, the formerly entrenched notion that sick children would not prosper away from home had given way to the other extreme. Now, it would seem, children required to be isolated in institutions entirely dedicated to their care. As Roger Cooter has indicated, there was a 'gradual dis...

Conclusion

Conclusion

Though Walvoord and McCarthy are the authors of this chapter, all team members have had input, and the chapter is based on the entire team's study. Thus "we" in this chapter refers to the team as a whole. We summarized some of our findings in Chapter 1 as a way of helping readers prepare for the classroom chapters. In this chapter, we complete that summary and we discuss implications of our stu...