Schiavo's death calls attention to ethical issues weighed at Bioethics Forum
Every day, scientists and medical experts struggle with ethic...Primary School Children Will Be Weighed And Parents Informed If They Are Obese
In a bid to combat the rising problem of childhood obesity health officials will weigh primary schoolchildren aged four to 10 years and inform their parents// if there is a danger that the kids are obese. The Independent on Sunday reported that ministers have decided to overrule the Children's Commissioner and their own child health officials who are of the opinion that telling parent...Underweight Moms: Weighed Down by the Risk of Miscarriages
The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology published a study that looked into the some of the factors that increased the chances of miscarriages// in mothers-to–be. The study looked at 600 women who suffered miscarriages in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (first trimester). They also studied 6,000 women whose pregnancies continued successfully to full term. The team from London...The Lethal Side of Human Error – Three Die After Consuming Inaccurately Weighed Dru
Portland – To err is human they say but imagine when the cost of the error is three lives! Recently, the drug compounding company, ApotheCure Inc. //in Texas, is in bad light following the irrevocable error committed by a worker while making the drug. ApotheCure Inc explained how a weighing error committed by a worker during the making of the drug ‘colchicine’, led to the death of th...Japanese are Weighed Down by Deviating from Their Traditional Diet
Japan's traditional diet of fish, tofu, vegetables and rice is considered a healthy role model the world over, but a change of eating habits is weighing down the land of the rising sun. Japan's health ministry estimates that every second male and every fifth female over the age of 40 is obese and experts have identified a change in lifestyle as the main cause of the problem. <br...