NHMRC no longer stands behind the Radiation Health Series (RHS) publications. ARPANSA has taken over responsibility for the maintenance and review of these publications. ARPANSA advises it considers that the RHS publications remain suitable for use until withdrawn and/or superseded by an ARPANSA Radiation Protection Series publication. This publication is currently being reviewed by ARPANSA. Re...

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act calls for extensive rule-making for financial regulation, the details of which are left up to the relevant enforcement agencies. To help ensure that this wide discretion is not abused, regulators should be required to use Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA). While BCA has been used extensively and increasingly in in environmental, health and safety regulation (EHS)...

Survivor advocates are powerful workers for injury prevention. Some of the major prevention successes have been due in large part to their efforts. This case history examines the four year campaign to prevent entrapment in car trunks (or boot) through the routine installation of interior trunk releases. It traces how a life altering event began a cluster of activities leading to product redesig...

BACKGROUND Private practitioners are the preferred first point of care in a majority of low and middle-income countries and in this position, best placed for the surveillance of diseases. However their contribution to routine surveillance data is marginal. This systematic review aims to explore evidence with regards to the role, contribution, and involvement of private practitioners in routine ...

Interconnection links connecting access providers to their peers, transit providers and major content providers are a potential point of discriminatory treatment and impairment of user experience. In the U.S., the FCC has asserted regulatory authority over those links, although they have acknowledged they lack sufficient expertise to develop appropriate regulations thus far. Without a basis of ...

'Medical Devices' include everything from highly sophisticated, computerized, medical equipment, right down to simple wooden tongue depressors. Regulations embody the public expectations for how buildings and facilities are expected to perform and as such represent public policy. Regulators, who develop and enforce regulations, are empowered to act in the public's interest to set this policy an...

A new horizon for the medical device sector in South Africa To the Editor: Access to high-quality, safe and appropriate priority medical devices is becoming the bedrock of delivery of effective and efficient healthcare across the world. The use of medical devices impacts on the continuum of care under the universal health coverage strategy. However, the decision-making process relating to commi...

Editor’s note: This month’s column fea­ tures the preface from the newly released CDC/HUD Healthy Housing Inspection Manual. Request your CD-ROM copy of the manual by calling 1-800-CDC-INFO or sending an e-mail to [email protected]. As always, your comments are welcomed; please send them to [email protected]. NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmen­ tal health and to ...

Our objective was to evaluate the effect of a change in treatment protocols, suggested following an inspection visit by the regulatory authority, from single to double inseminations during donor insemination treatment cycles. We therefore conducted a retrospective audit of pregnancy rates in the reproductive medicine clinic of a major teaching hospital. All patients were treated for male factor...

164 March 2015, Vol. 105, No. 3 Conflict of interest and regulatory authorities To the Editor: Parrish and Blockman[1] make excellent points about conflict of interest (COI), particularly in the context of ‘medical leadership’. As key opinion leaders themselves (both are members of the National Essential Medicines List Committee (2013 2015), as is the second signatory to this letter – the term ...