Eight controversies

Controversies in Obesity Treatment

The markedly high prevalence of obesity contributes to the increased incidence of chronic diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, and heart disease. Because of high prevalence of obesity in almost all countries, it has been the focus of many researches throughout the world during the recent decades. Along with increasing researches, new concepts and controversies have been emerge...

Intraoperative awareness: controversies and non-controversies.

Intraoperative awareness, with or without recall, continues to be a topic of clinical significance and neurobiological interest. In this article, we review evidence pertaining to the incidence, sequelae, and prevention of intraoperative awareness. We also assess which aspects of the complication are well understood (i.e. non-controversial) and which require further research for clarification (i...

Chronic Low-grade Inflammation after Exercise: Controversies

Circumcision controversies.

Despite its long history and common practice, circumcision remains a controversial procedure. This article reviews the history of this operation, examines the controversy that surrounds it, and emphasizes the performing practitioner's responsibility to the patient and his family in guiding them through the complicated decision making surrounding newborn circumcision.

Trends & Controversies

The recently released Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is said to combine the best of other standards for web services composition such as WSFL from IBM and XLANG of Microsoft. BPEL4WS allows for a mixture of block structured and graph structured process models thus making the language expressive at the price of being complex. Although BPEL4WS is not such a bad pro...