The Big Chill: Are Public Participation Rights Being Slapp-Ed?

The big chill: adverse effects of public reporting on access to health care.

EF, its clinical utility will not be clear. Also, as pointed out by Dr. Chan and colleagues, future studies of MTWA should consider all cause and cardiac mortality in addition to arrhythmic events as primary end points. As stated in our Discussion section, this is a limitation of prior studies and likely due to their relatively small size, thus resulting in a lack of hard end points. As highlig...

The Big Chill: The WTO and Multilateral Environmental Agreements*

If sustainable development is about the integration of economic and environmental goals, then there seems to be a signiacant lack of integration between the preeminent global governance structures set up to manage trade and environment respectively. The international trade regime has evolved into one of the most powerful and inouential multilateral regimes in the world today in terms of its abi...

Hypothermia in Organophosphate Compound Poisoning: Recognizing the Big Chill

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Hypothermia in trauma patients: predicting the big chill

Physicians commonly ignore hypothermia, an often-underappreciated event associated with mortality in trauma patients, in general due to its prevalence and belief that it is secondary to the injury itself (secondary hypothermia). Over the past several decades, hypothermia in trauma has been studied concerning its effects on mortality; however, very little has been done to identify the major risk...

The big chill: diseases exacerbated by exposure to cold.