Simple, Low-Cost Educational Interventions Can Reduce Radiation Exposure

An Evaluation of Interventions Designed to Reduce Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure

New Clinical Decision Instruments Can and Should Reduce Radiation Exposure

In this Perspective linked to Rodriguez and colleagues, Emmanuel Lagarde discusses the importance of decision instruments that can help physicians avoid subjecting patients to radiation exposure from unnecessary CT scans.

A Low-Cost and Simple Arduino-Based Educational Robotics Kit

This paper presents a low cost educational robotics kit based on the UNO Arduino platform. The prototype is intended to be applied in secondary (high) schools by means of educational workshops on robotics. The project is supported by a step-by-step documentation (e.g. booklet) that addresses basic physics, mathematics, logic programming and robotics concepts. It also offers all the steps for ev...

Can UV exposure reduce mortality?

A Swedish cohort analysis in this issue (1) demonstrates a significant reduction in all cause mortality and in cardiovascular mortality associated with several measures of sun exposure. In addition, ultraviolet exposure from tanning beds is associated with a significant increase in all cause mortality and cancer mortality. A potential explanation for the protective association is that UV exposu...

Can mass media interventions reduce child mortality?

Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to measure rigorously, using a cluster-randomised design, how many lives mass media can save in a low-i...