Lords warn industry and government to back science changes

Harnessing academia, government, and industry.

One of the goals of the recent workshop, “An Eye on Glaucoma: New Opportunities for Treatment,” was to highlight areas of glaucoma research that, with appropriate funding, are ripe for major advancement for prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Another goal was the exploration of collaborative partnership and the process for facilitating translation of these areas, not just for glaucoma but for...

Back to the past in California: a temporary retreat to a Tarasoff duty to warn.

The original Tarasoff decision created a duty for California psychotherapists to warn potential victims of their patients. After rehearing the matter two years later, the California Supreme Court, in the landmark second Tarasoff decision, changed the duty to warn to a duty to protect potential victims, with warning as only one of the options for discharging that duty. Despite this change, the T...

HACCP: Industry versus Government

Few initiatives in the recent history of food safety regulation have approached the significance of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system. The HACCP concept is simple; it is a systematic, proactive approach to preventing food safety hazards by focusing resources at those points at which food safety hazards can be controlled, an alternative to generally reactive end-produ...

From Government to Governance—And Back? Understanding the Changing Role of Government in Governance

Government Inaction on Ratings and Government Subsidies to the US Film Industry Help Promote Youth Smoking

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 3 Onbeyond LLC, Fairfax, California, United States of America, 4 Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Center for Tobacco Control Research...