Judicial Response to Governmental Loss or Destruction of Evidence

Issues and Guiding Principles for Opening Governmental Judicial Research Data

The opening of data is considered to provide many benefits. However, opening up data by public bodies is a complex and ill-understood activity. Although many public bodies might be willing to open up their data, they lack any systematic guidance. In this paper, guidance is provided by investigating the publishing processes at the Dutch Research and Documentation Centre (WODC), which owns govern...

Radiography; Profit or Loss

The use of radiographic images in dentistry to diagnose caries and other dental diseases has always been inevitable. Almost half of all dental caries are diagnosed only by radiography. However, given the benefits of this method for diagnosing the disease, X-ray examinations have undeniable risks for the patient due to the use of ionizing radiation and their improper use increases the risk of th...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Whither health promotion events? A judicial approach to evidence.

This paper reports on a review undertaken for the Health Education Board for Scotland on 'health events'. On the basis of a literature review and interviews with 20 professionals in the UK, it appraised the effectiveness of such activities, assessed their current extent and status, and ultimately considered whether they are useful and relevant within emergent contexts. It suggests that the evid...

Evidence-Based Medicine in judicial decisions concerning right to healthcare

OBJECTIVE To analyze, from the examination of decisions issued by Brazilian courts, how Evidence-Based Medicine was applied and if it led to well-founded decisions, searching the best scientific knowledge. METHODS The decisions made by the Federal Courts were searched, with no time limits, at the website of the Federal Court Council, using the expression "Evidence-Based Medicine". With regard...