Relevant to today's society? Evidence

Epidemiologic evidence relevant to radar (microwave) effects.

Public and occupational exposures to microwave (RF) are of two main types. The first type of exposures are those connected with military and industrial uses and, to some extent broadcast exposures. It is this type that most of the data cited in this study draw upon. The second type, cellular telephones and their associated broadcast requirements, have raised concerns about current exposures bec...

Total Evidence Versus Relevant

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Is Evidence-Based Medicine Relevant to the Developing World?

Paul Chinnock is Senior Editor, PLoS, Medicine. Nandi Siegfried is a South African Nuffield Medical Fellow at the University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom). Mike Clarke is Director of the United Kingdom Cochrane Centre (Oxford, United Kingdom). The authors are involved in the work of the Cochrane Collaboration, but the views expressed in this article are their own and are not necessarily th...

Making Public Health Nutrition relevant to evidence-based action.

Eric Brunner*, Mike Rayner, Margaret Thorogood, Barrie Margetts, Lee Hooper, Carolyn Summerbell, Elizabeth Dowler, Gillian Hewitt, Aileen Robertson and Martin Wiseman International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK: British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department...

Evidence Relevant to Guidelines for the Investigation of Breast Symptoms