Berenson called the agency "extremely difficult" to work with and unwilling to modify a mindset focused on safety, one that does not readily apply to rare, urgent diseases like Duchenne.
"The medical curriculum is so focused on safety and protocols," she says.
Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University, said: "Despite a program that was elaborately focused on safety, these inadvertent events happen.
Until then, annual inspections had focused on safety issues and were performed for a few dollars by most garages as well as free at state inspection centers.
Tragedy Begets a Change Last March, Potash's chief executive, William J. Doyle, attended a conference in Bahrain that focused on safety in the fertilizer industry.
"This is landmark legislation," said Nancy A. Cowles, executive director of Kids in Danger, a nonprofit that focused on safety in children's products that supported the measure.
Guskiewicz is a member of the league's Head, Neck and Spine Committee and the chairman of a subcommittee focused on safety equipment and playing rules.
Kirk Sorensen, president of the Weinberg Foundation, a new NGO launched on Thursday to promote the cause of thorium around the world, said the design of thorium reactors had always focused on safety first.
At that time, "it's possible we concentrated more on developing the market and were not so focused on safety concerns," said Hemi Pamuraharjo, the deputy director for scheduled flight services at the Ministry of Transportation.
Samaras was by many accounts deeply focused on safety, but the tornado that took him and his team (along with 10 other people*) demonstrated that the power in these churning storms can imperil even the most prepared expert.
And unlike Myspace, Piczo is focused on safety first.
