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The gifts reserved for age.

Many disciplines from the biological and social sciences are relevant to the study of human ageing. The unique contribution of epidemiology lies in defining the phenomenon of ageing and identifying the influences that determine its manifestations. With sadness we recognise, wherever we look in the world, that these influences include privilege, prejudice, and politics. Ageing, in the sense of s...

Ladies first: should boys be vaccinated against HPV?

About 30 years ago, Harald zur Hausen and colleagues discovered that cervical cancer was caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) and started a chase to eradicate this terrible disease by vaccination.1 The HPV vaccine is now available, but many questions remain unanswered, including whether or not men as well as women should be immunized. Despite recent media attention questioning the safety and ef...

Information Will Be Free

Since the popularity of internet and new communication technologies, the issue of information sharing has become a matter of debate. In digital world, distances are meaningless and Information could be transferred to different parts of the world in few seconds. In this paper we discuss the effect of new technologies on licensed information and copyright law. We take this position that in modern...

Will He Be There?

This paper focuses on an unsettling example of experimental labour - the Human Landing Catch (HLC). The HLC is a cheap and reliable technique to produce data on mosquito densities in a defined area. It requires only a human volunteer to sit over night with his legs exposed, a headlamp to spot mosquitoes, and a rubber tube and plastic cup to catch them as they come to feed on him. The HLC formed...