Protecting the clean athlete, protecting health

Protecting the clean athlete, protecting health

The vision of the IOC is to change the world for the better through sport and to promote social change. Protecting the health of the athlete is an important part of this vision, in order to protect the integrity of sport, protect elite athletes, protect the health of all those exercising and to promote physical activity. The protection of clean athletes through doping control is also important ...

Protecting health: thinking small.

Protecting health: thinking small Sidhartha R Sinha & Rajaie Batniji a Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305, United States of America. b University of Oxford, Oxford, England. Correspondence to Sidhartha R Sinha (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 31 August 2009 – Revised version received: 13 January 2010 – Accepted: 13 January 2010 – Published onl...

Removing mercury, protecting people’s health

Now that the Minamata Convention has come into effect, developing countries are struggling to phase out the use of mercury to protect people's health. Jan Dirk Herberman reports.

Vaccines: Preventing Disease Protecting Health

Vaccines: Preventing Disease Protecting Health does not provide the type of vaccine-specific information as Plotkin and Orenstein’s Vaccines (1), nor does it provide the details on the immune system of Bloom and Lambert’s The Vaccine Book (2). The book does not cover every important vaccine issue, such as ethical issues in vaccine trials and the conduct of clinical trials; most critically, it l...

Protecting the confidentiality of health information.