Modern operating system kernels employ address space layout randomization (ASLR) to prevent control-flow hijacking attacks and code-injection attacks. While kernel security relies fundamentally on preventing access to address information, recent attacks have shown that the hardware directly leaks this information. Strictly splitting kernel space and user space has recently been proposed as a th...

I am pleased and honored to be Guest Editor of this special issue of The Permanente Journal. In my 36th year of association with Kaiser Permanente (KP), no one is more surprised than I that I have spent the majority of that time in Preventive Medicine, far from Infectious Diseases, where I started. While physicians readily give lip service to Preventive Medicine, it is often considered a dull, ...

OBJECTIVE Hand hygiene has historically been identified as an important intervention for preventing infection acquired in health care settings. Recently, the advent of waterless, alcohol-based skin degermer and elimination of artificial nails have been recognized as other important interventions for preventing infection. Supplied with this information, the National Infection Control Peer Group ...

Douglas Shearer, Director of Communications for The Permanente Federation. E-mail: [email protected]. Mark Littlewood, MPA, CHE, CPHRM, Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, The Permanente Federation. E-mail: [email protected]. Introduction Despite advances in detection and treatment of breast cancer in recent years, this disease remains the leading cause of new cancer cases ...

This article was updated to correct Heiko A. Kaiser’s name. It appeared incorrectly as K. Kaiser.