Hospitals in low crime areas, believed to be far removed from gang activity, might suddenly be involved in a gang shooting situation for which their staffs are ill-prepared, as the author relates. He describes the need to have a policy in place in advance of a gang victim arriving at your ED to avoid situations where staff and patients are put in danger. The article presents the highlights of a...

SIR The article by Chaturvedi and McKeigue' fails to mention the danger of relying on the 1991 UK census as an accurate estimate of ethnic minority populations. Both Ballard and Kalra,2 in their discussion of the census nationally, and Glover,3 in his figures for the London areas of Camberwell and Hammersmith, point out the huge underrepresentation of black Caribbean men aged 25 to 44. Both rep...

This article discusses the danger of a growing digital divide between rural and other areas. It presents broadband as increasingly necessary for the delivery of information, health, education, business, social security, public and leisure services. Access to broadband has become vital for rural communities to participate in a progressively digital economy and to overcome problems of physical an...

Measures taken to decrease interdependent risks within chemical industrial areas should be based on quantitative data from a holistic (cluster-based) point of view. Therefore, this paper examines the typology of networks representing industrial areas to formulate recommendations to more effectively protect a chemical cluster against existing systemic risks. Chemical industrial areas are modeled...

Medical officers in each local body were responsible for their respective areas. Fortnightly meetings of all the medical officers concerned were held at the Malaria Survey Office, Delhi, where Colonel Covell or Major Afridi, i.m.s. (special anti-malaria officer, Delhi), kept the medical officers fully posted with information about conditions prevailing in the various areas and about any danger ...

Fire danger rating systems are used to assess the potential for bushfire occurrence, fire spread and difficulty of fire suppression. Typically, fire danger rating systems combine meteorological information with estimates of the moisture content of the fuel to produce a fire danger index. Fire danger indices are used to declare fire bans and to schedule prescribed burns, among other applications...

All aspects of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis are critically influenced by the inflammatory response in vascular plaques. Research in the field of innate immunity from the past 2 decades has uncovered many novel mechanisms elucidating how immune cells sense microbes, tissue damage, and metabolic derangements. Here, we summarize which triggers of innate immunity appear during atherogenesis ...