This article explores the possible social costs of introducing an overly precautionary regulatory regime for chemicals It begins by examining research by the UK Medical Research Council Institute for Environment and Health (MRC-IEH), which suggests that the resource implications of the proposals contained in the European Commission White Paper "Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy" are unreal...

a Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK b Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London SE5 9RJ, UK c Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, 4 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, UK d Medical Re...

The other universities have done everything in their power to comply with the recommendations of the General Medical Council, and even the Calcutta University recognised the right of the Medical Council to examine the teaching institutions, but when it came to the examinations themselves being inspected they refused as a matter of principle. Undoubtelv the University is quite within its rights ...

Kinship in Practice: Spatial Distribution of Children's Kin Networks Sangeetha Madhavan, Paul Mee & Mark Collinson a University of Maryland; Medical Research Council/Agincourt Health and Population Unit, University of the Witwatersrand b Medical Research Council/Agincourt Health and Population Unit, University of the Witwatersrand; Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå Univers...

INTRODUCTION Dyspnea is a common and disabling symptom for patients with chronic lung diseases. The Medical Research Council Dyspnea Scale (MRC) and the Oxygen Cost Diagram (OCD) are widely used instruments validated in English to measure breathlessness. OBJECTIVE To translate and culturally adapt the MRC and the OCD for its use in Puerto Rico. METHOD The scales were translated to Spanish a...

Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of 11 Excellence in Vision Science (CE0561903), Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for 12 Integrative Brain Function (CE140100007), the National Health and Medical Research Council 13 (GNT0525459), the Eirene Lucas Foundation, the Rebecca L. Cooper Medical Research Foundation 14 and the Victorian L...

The recent visit of Sir Norman Walker to India is an event of no ordinary importance. Sir Norman was sent out to examine the conditions under which undergraduate medica. education is conducted in this country with a special view to determining the future relations which will exist between the General Council ol Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom and the Universities of Ind...