… ‘Chris McDougall runs miles across the planet’s most hostile terrain with a lost tribe, a
zonked-out surfer couple and a bare-footed maniac, then tells their amazing story with the …

• The regulations require member states to develop national surveillance and response
systems.• The regulations describe how international health emergencies are to be identified, …

Public health practitioners attempt to identify and then remove, or at least reduce, threats of
harm. However, harm does not affect everyone in the same way. Some people and …

Hymen reconstruction surgery (HR), while ethically controversial, is now available in many
countries. Little clinical evidence and hardly any surgical standards support the intervention. …

While efforts to meet international commitments to counter biodiversity declines by establishing
networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) continue, assessments of MPAs rarely take …

… Christopher McDougall, … Christopher McDougall, … Citation: Wilson K, McDougall C,
Upshur R (2006) The New International Health Regulations and the Federalism Dilemma …

The International Health Regulations (IHR), the principal legal instrument guiding the
international management of public health emergencies, have recently undergone an extensive …

New public threats that can rapidly cross borders are continuing to challenge global health
security (World Health Organization [WHO] 2007). To protect the world from these threats, …

The miniaturization of microelectronic devices has created a demand for new low‐dielectric‐constant
materials to be used as insulating layers between metal interconnects. In this study…

The 2003 SARS outbreak highlighted the importance of maintaining an adequate public
health (PH) infrastructure, and cast doubt on the wisdom of basing the system locally without …