SERC director looks to the future

A radiation biologist looks to the future.

Once again we stand on a pinnacle of time. Backward we look to a year that has gone. Forward we look to the year ahead. Except that this particular pinnacle also separates the centuries and the millennia. Everyone, in every field, is taking stock: Where have we been and where are we going? We celebrate 100 years of radiation research. As the nineteenth century became the twentieth, X-rays had a...

Sunscreens and melanoma: the future looks bright.

BACKGROUND Meta-analyses of observational case-control studies have demonstrated no association between sunscreen use and the development of malignant melanoma. OBJECTIVES To examine whether this observation is to be expected given the period during which the case-control studies were conducted, the sunscreens prevalent at that time, and how sunscreen is used and applied in practice. To predi...

MetaStar shows marked improvements for Medicare patients, looks to future.

Home-based medication management system looks to future.

Limits to Growth ' 75 " looks at gloomy global future

by JOHN FREEMAN "Never has mankind been confronted with such vast global problems as today," explained Sicco Mansholt, a Dutch farmer and former president of the European Common Market. S i n g l i n g out w h a t he t h o u g h t were t h e m o s t p r e s s i n g o n e s , t h o u g h , Mansholt opened the "Limits to Growth '75" conference in Houston on a pessimistic note. He pointed out that...