Bedsores: We need more Research, Deveopment and Innovation.

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Do we need more research on neurolathyrism

It is nearly four decades since the discovery of ODAP as the major neurotoxic constituent of Lathyrus sativus seeds. However, several basic questions relating to neurolathyrism still remain unanswered. We are unable to convince several governments to ban the cultivation of the pulse and to take on a more serious approach to introducing the low toxin varieties. Meanwhile, farmers continue to gro...

Do we really need more research?

Why We Need a Tighter Theory and More Critical Research on Open Innovation

The concept of open innovation is currently popular in the management and policy literature on technology and innovation. However, despite the large volume of empirical work, many of the prescriptions being proposed are fairly general, rather than specific to particular contexts and contingencies. The proponents of open innovation tend to offer universal, and often universally positive, prescri...

Noise and Health: Why We Need More Research

This paper will examine research on noise and health and suggest new topics and methods of investigation. First, it will discuss noise exposure and argue that new approaches need to be considered. Secondly, it will examine possible underlying mechanisms and show that it is inappropriate to use stress as a model for effects of noise on health. The next section will suggest that it is important t...