Edmonds C. Children and diving: a review of SPUMS articles. SPUMS J 2003; 33: 206-211) This review of recent articles relating to scuba training of children published in the SPUMS Journal counterbalances some of the perceived bias of the diving industry organisations and affiliates. Additional case reports are supplied and factual information regarding diving deaths is related to the specific l...

I thank Hanretty and Ford for their comment. They make an interesting point, but I think that this has been over-made recently. The term “size of the denominator population” explains that some population groups are bigger than others and that this matters greatly. The map published with the article shows the number of voters polled in each region, adjusted to remove sampling bias. The proportio...

Recognizing this, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the 28,000-member nonprofit society for food science and technology, convened a panel of internationally renowned experts to review the science related to emerging microbiological food safety issues and implications for their control and to produce a comprehensive, scientific report. IFT’s objective for this Expert Report is to increa...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com vegetables and flowers. Practicing of grafting in vegetable crops is an exclusive tool in East Asia to manage various vulnerable issues to the intensive vegetable production. In this regard, the first scientific report of vegetable grafting was published during late 1920 in Japan Journal of Horticulture [1]. This study was designed to control soil b...

The expert report underpinning the next set of US Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to reflect much relevant scientific literature in its reviews of crucial topics and therefore risks giving a misleading picture, an investigation by The BMJ has found. The omissions seem to suggest a reluctance by the committee behind the report to consider any evidence that contradicts the last 35 years of...