CURRENT SOCIETAL CONCERNS: INTRODUCTION

Research allocations: should societal concerns drive the research agenda?

Lead toxicity: current concerns.

Over the 20-year period since the first issue of Environmental Health Perspectives was published, there has been considerable progress in the understanding of the potential toxicity of exposure to lead. Many of these advances have been reviewed in published symposia, conferences, and review papers in EHP. This brief review identifies major advances as well as a number of current concerns that p...

Current concerns in transplantation.

a Department of Essential Health Technologies, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Luc Noël (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.049734 As long as the global supply of tissues, cells and organs for transplant does not meet needs, desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous individuals. Yet countries including Spain and the Uni...

Mycoses in Thailand: current concerns.

Scytalidium dimidiatum is the leading cause of fungal foot diseases in Thailand, in contrast to similar studies in which dermatophytes have been identified as the predominant pathogens. By contrast, the prevalence of Candida albicans in our study was only 2.6 approximately 3.0%. Scytalidium fungal foot infection is clinically indistinguishable from that caused by dermatophytes and should be inc...

Concerns Surrounding the Introduction of RFID

RFID technology has received a lot of attention when it comes to technical proposals on how to maintain user privacy. Yet, few insights have been gained on what people really fear when they interact with the technology. Is it the flow of information between objects and unnoticed readers? Or do people fear the exchange of fine grained and individually attributable RFID data after collection? Is ...