Needless Photographic Failures

Needless contraception.

Breaking the web of needless disability.

BACKGROUND It is well established that environmental factors can have impact upon an injured person's recovery and return-to-work outcomes. To date, there has been no cohesive model to provide theoretical understanding of the way in which these divergent factors combine to create disability behaviours. OBJECT Development of a conceptual model for understanding the development of disability be...

Meningitis vaccination programme prompts needless scare

On 27 August The Observer newspaper in the UK published no less than four articles on allegedly serious dangers associated with the serogroup C meningococcal conjugate vaccine, introduced for routine use in this country about a year ago. First, a page one banner headline (“Meningitis jab deaths ‘cover-up’’’) heralded a report that at least 11 young people had died after receiving the new vaccin...

Needless restrictions imposed on cardiac patients.

z /[ANY physicians appear to be too strict and particular in the rules of diet and regimen, which they deliver as proper to be observed by all who are solicitous either to preserve or recover their health. The too anxious attention to these rules hath often hurt those who are well, and added unnecessarily to the distresses of the sick."' These are the opening sentences of William Heberden's Com...

Mass culling for avian influenza: rational strategy or needless destruction?

Infection by the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus strain H5N1 has wrought periodic havoc in several pockets in the country in the last two years, most recently in West Bengal (1, 2). Millions of domestic fowl potentially infected with the virus have been slaughtered, affecting the livelihood and nutrition of people in thousands of villages and towns, with the intention of saving t...