At the University of Twente we have been researching mobile healthcare applications since 1999. Since 2002 the University of Twente and partners have been developing health Body Area Networks (BANs) and a BAN service platform. We define a BAN as a network of communicating devices worn on, around or in the body which provides mobile services to the user. The BAN may also communicate to remote us...

Norway implemented a nationwide ban on indoor smoking in June 2004. This study documents the smoking patterns of Norway's restaurant and bar workers before and after the ban, to determine changes in smoking prevalence and explore which individual and environmental characteristics were related to cessation. A national sample of food service workers was surveyed by telephone or Internet immediate...

Like any self-respecting public health official, it was my lifelong dream to be sued by a tobacco company. I got my wish in 2008. At that time I was the Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and we became the first locality to ban the sale of tobacco at pharmacies. Phillip Morris USA, Inc. promptly filed suit in the United States District Court to overturn the ban. Their la...

form (R. A. Paulsen, S. Fujita, S. C. Smart, and D. F. Stowe. FASEB J. 11: A526, 1997). Present address of S. Fujita: Dept. of Anesthesiology, Minami 1-Jyo Hospital, S-1, W-13, Chuo-ku, Sapporo Medical University, Hokkaido 060, Japan. Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: D. F. Stowe, M4280 MEB, 8701 Watertown Plank Rd., Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Regional Medical ...

Food system regulators often decide whether to ban existing practices or approve new technologies without conclusive scientific evidence on possible damage and knowing that resolution is likely in the future. In a model with three decision points and stochastic resolution of uncertainty, we study interactions between expected losses due to regulation and information availability when a regulato...

How does the CITES trade ban on international trade in elephant ivory affect the incentives to poach African elephants? In this commentary, the major effects of a trade ban on poaching incentives are captured in a simple static model of world ivory supply and demand. It is shown that a trade ban has ambiguous effects on poaching incentives. Although the ban reduces international ivory demand, o...

INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................512 I. GAGING THE RESPONSE TO HUMAN CLONING .................................517 A. Initial Reactions and Actions ........................................................517 B. Recent Attitudes Toward Human Cloning .....................................519 II. CAN A BAN ON HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE CLONING ...

Hiroshi Nishi, Akihiro Tojo, Maristela Lika Onozato, Rika Jimbo, Masaomi Nangaku, Hiroshi Uozaki, Kenji Hirano, Hiroyuki Isayama, Masao Omata and Shinya Kaname Nephrol Dial Transplant 2007; 22: 1273–1275; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfl672 In the above article, the name of the last author (Toshiro Fujita) was omitted. The correct author list should read as follows: Hiroshi Nishi, Akihiro Tojo, Maristela Li...