Parents may come to well-child checkup appointments equipped with lists of questions about vaccine safety and effectiveness. In this context, pediatricians may struggle to explain the value of vaccines when confronted with a difficult situation: an actual untoward event after administration of childhood vaccines. Often referred to as an adverse event following immunization (AEFI), 6 these event...

Safety is becoming more and more an issue in warehouses. In the literature, effective measures leading to increased occupational health and safety have hardly been researched. Most research focuses on the impact of perceived safety-related leadership of managers and worker safety consciousness on ‘safety climate’ and workers’ safe behavior. We have carried out exploratory research into which me...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia of substantial public health importance. Recent evidence demonstrates a heritable component underlying AF, and genetic discoveries have identified common variants associated with the arrhythmia. Ultimately one hopes that the consideration of genetic variation in clinical practice may enhance care and improve health outcomes. In this review we expl...