Safety Goals: Revisited

Editorial: Patient safety revisited

Once again a recent article in The New York Times(1) has caused angst in the medical physics community because of what appeared to have been incorrect delivery of radiation. Following reporting of the incident, many email messages appeared on list servers written by medical physicists responding to this incident. One of the most vocal of these individuals has been Howard I. Amols, PhD, Chief, C...

Nanotechnology safety concerns revisited.

Nanotechnology is an emerging science involving manipulation of matter at the nanometer scale. Due to concerns over nanomaterial risks, there has been a dramatic increase in focused safety research. The present review provides a summary of these published findings, identifying areas of agreement and discordance with regard to: (1) the potential for nanomaterial exposure, (2) the relative hazard...

Food safety revisited.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves. Two papers in this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases focus on food safety from 2 different angles. First, in an elegant work from Finnish investigators [1], the culprit behind an epidemic caused by Yer-sinia pseudotuberculosis was uncovered: grated carrots. The same serotype and pulsed-fiel gel electrophoresis (PFGE) type ...

JCAHO issues 2005 Patient Safety Goals.

Strain Theory Revisited: Economic Goals, Educational Means, and Delinquency

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