Rivals clash over plans to take science to London public

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

Are Autonomous Mobile Robots Able to Take Over Construction? A Review

Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...

Toxicology. Arsenic victims to take British science body to court.

1066 C RE D IT S: (T O P TO B O TT O M ) PA V EL R A H M A N /A P; D .M A C K EN Z IE CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—The British Geological Survey (BGS) is girding for a court battle over claims that it could have averted a wave of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh over the past decade. A High Court judge in London last week gave the go-ahead for a trial pitting two Bangladeshi residents against BGS’s parent bo...

Time to take bolder initiative with regard to public accountability.

To the Editor: It’s time our profession took a bolder initiative with regard to public accountability. Whenever an organization, research firm, government agency, or other publishes data indicting physicians for their role in medical errors, poor outcomes, failure to police fellow practitioners, or issues relevant to quality of care and patient safety, our collective response has been twofold: ...

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...