Pesticides and your food: How safe is “safe”?

How safe is your nano

How Safe Is Our Food?

ow safe is our food? Put another way, how much illness in the United States is caused by foodborne pathogens? It sounds like a simple question. Getting a reasonable answer, however, is far from simple. The basic problem lies in the fact that only a small fraction of foodborne disease cases get reported through offi cial (or unoffi cial) reporting systems. Calculating the " real " rate of foodbo...

How safe is your operating theatre?

How safe is your motorcycle helmet?

PURPOSE Motorcycle crash helmets do not totally prevent head and facial trauma. The aim of this study was to investigate if protection offered by helmets differs according to helmet type. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, outpatient records of motorcyclists were analyzed for the Facial Injury Severity Scale (FISS), traumatic brain injury (TBI), facial fractures, and he...

How safe is safe enough?

Hospitals are rather strange places to work. The rationale, after all, of purposely concentrating into close quarters the sick, the frail, and the contagious is elusive at times. Further compounding the situation is the introduction of healthcare workers into the mix, usually at the ratio of approximately five or six full-time employees for every hospital bed. In no other circumstance, except p...