In this issue
PER ASPERA AD ASTRA; FIFTY YEARS AFTER SILENT SPRING, ORGANIC POLLUTANTS REAR THEIR HEADS WITH DIABETES
In this issue, the Duk-Hee Lee and a group of international colleagues raise the question as to whether low-level background exposure to persistent organic pollutants could contribute to the social burden of Type II diabetes. Fifty years after Rachel Carson published her classic book, Silent Spring, alerting us to how we were poisoning the planet, new surprises keep popping up. See page 1006
Meanwhile, the Injuries and Violence Prevention Group at WHO Geneva applaud the United Nations’ recent resolution on road safety. With more than one million people being killed annually on the world’s roads and between 20 and 50 million being injured, truly global concerted action is needed. What price the “Nanny State” when confronted with such big …
