Brighter days ahead

Brighter days ahead!

CSP received more than 2,200 article submissions in 2016. This volume reiterates the journal’s importance as a channel for science publication in Public Health and encourages us as Editors to renew our commitment to publishing articles that explore socially relevant research issues with creativity and diversity 1. Throughout 2016, we extended our policy of opening the journal’s pages to current...

Dangerous days ahead: a call to arms.

A Brighter Future

Contrary to Wuebbles’ thesis (2002), most of the media did not misunderstand the thrust of our recent paper (Hansen et al., 2000). We do indeed assert that a scenario is feasible in which the rate of global warming declines. We also posit that, with an understanding of the significant climate forcings, it is possible to achieve such a climatically brighter path with actions that are not ‘econom...

Imaging a brighter future.

The first functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study of a psychiatric illness appeared in The American Journal of Psychiatry nearly two decades ago and began with the following statement: " Functional echo planar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probably will be of importance in assessing brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders " (1). The ability to observe the physiology of the li...

Brighter light. Better water.

Background. Non-polio human enteroviruses are the leading cause of aseptic meningitis in children. The role of enterovirus PCR for diagnosis and management of aseptic meningitis has not been fully explored. Methodology/Principal Findings. A retrospective study was conducted to determine the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of aseptic meningitis and to evaluate the role ...