Unsafe abortion persists as a serious health problem for women. It is rooted in poverty, social inequity, and denial of women's basic human rights. As experience from Latin America and other regions demonstrates, obstetrician-gynecologists can be leaders in supporting reproductive rights and access to safe abortion, through their professional societies and also by way of their roles as provider...

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...

The three day conference on Antimicrobial Resistance: A Cause for Global Concern was organized from 6-8th February, 2012 by the Department of Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences (SHIATS) [Deemed-to-be-University], Allahabad, India. The conference received an overwhelming response from three hundred participants including s...

SIGMOD should be careful not to stretch itself too thinly. The current community that SIGMOD serves is the \database research-oriented community": those producing the research results (academicians and research lab members), those utilizing the research results (DBMS, middleware, and tool vendors), and those interested in where the eld is going (forwardlooking users and consultants). At the pre...