in “buying health: the costs of commercialization and an alternative philosophy”, larry r. churchill and shelley c. churchill discuss the commercialization of health and, in particular, the commercialization of nutrition. in this commentary on their article, i draw a connection between churchill and churchill’s account of the commercialization of nutrition and michael pollan’s critique of “nutr...

background:respiratory distress syndrome is the most common respiratory disease in premature neonate and the most important cause of death among them. we aimed to investigate factors to predict successful or failure of insure method as a therapeutic method of rds.methods:in a cohort study,45 neonates with diagnosed rds and birth weight lower than 1500g were included and they underwent insure fo...

This paper is prepared to indicate the core concepts of commercialization. The study scrutinized the commercialization literature firstly and recognized 31 effective factors by means of content analysis. Then, the recognized factors were categorized in the five main groups which include: research-oriented, industryoriented, government, technology parks and growth centers, and environmental fact...