A Randomised Clinical Feasibility Trial of a Breast Immobilisation Device: The SuPPORT 4 All Bra.

Aims: Despite the breast being a mobile organ, there is currently no standard suitable immobilisation device to optimise radiotherapy for women with larger breasts treated after a wide local excision. The SuPPORT 4 All (S4A) bra was co-designed with patients and radiotherapy professionals. The purpose of this study was to test the feasibility of using the S4A bra in the existing breast cancer radiotherapy pathway.

Political dynamics promoting the incremental regulation of secondhand smoke: a case study of New South Wales, Australia.

Background: The history of governmental responses to the accumulation of scientific evidence about the harms of secondhand smoke (SHS) presents an intriguing case study of incremental public health policy development. Australia has long been considered a world-leader in progressive tobacco control policies, but in the last decade has fallen behind other jurisdictions in introducing SHS legislation that protects all workers. Bars, clubs and pubs remain the only public indoor spaces where smoking is legally permitted, despite SHS exposure in the hospitality industry being higher and affecting more people than in any other setting after domestic exposure.

Tobacco industry efforts to defeat the occupational safety and health administration indoor air quality rule.

Objectives: We describe tobacco industry strategies to defeat the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Indoor Air Quality rule and the implementation of those strategies.

Methods: We analyzed tobacco industry documents, public commentary on, and media coverage of the OSHA rule.

Results: The tobacco industry had 5 strategies: (1) maintain scientific debate about the basis of the rule, (2) delay deliberation on the rule, (3) redefine the scope of the rule, (4) recruit and assist labor and business organizations in opposing the rule, and (5) increase media coverage of the tobacco industry position.

Science in regulatory policy making: case studies in the development of workplace smoking restrictions.

Objective: To study the role of science related and other arguments in the development of workplace smoking regulations.

Design: Case study, content analysis

Subjects: Written commentaries and hearing transcripts on proposed indoor air regulations in Maryland and Washington.

Main Outcome Measures: We coded each written commentary and hearing testimony for position toward the regulation, affiliation of the person submitting it, criteria used to evaluate science and scientific, ideological, economic, political, engineering and procedural arguments.