Abstract Background The Medical Research Council vitamin trial highlighted the importance
of folic acid in the prevention of neural tube defects. Since 1993, the Irish Department of …

In the summer of 1995, cryptosporidiosis was diagnosed in a child in hospital. This child had
taken part in a summer activity project involving 161 children and nine adults. Reports of a …

Research ethics committees (RECs) are charged with providing an opinion on whether
research proposals are ethical. These committees are overseen by a central office that acts …

Traditionally clinicians have determined their patients' resuscitation status without
consultation. This has been condemned as morally indefensible in cases where not for …

Parenteral nutrition is an expensive therapeutic modality that is used to treat patients with
intestinal failure. The benefit it offers in terms of life prolongation needs to be weighed …

Objectives—To study the value of taking an ethics history as a means of assessing patients'
preferences for decision making and for their relatives' involvement. Design—Questionnaire …

Of 535 consecutive cases of acute leukaemia diagnosed in the Cape Province between
1978 and 1985, demographic data are incomplete in 75 black patients and they have had to …

Objectives: To compare non-treatment decision making by general practitioners and
geriatricians in response to vignettes. To see whether the doctors' decisions were informed …

Systemic lupus erythematosus and nodular regenerative hyperplasia of the liver Page 1 Annals
of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1986, 45, 167-170 Case report Systemic lupus erythematosus and …

In the United Kingdom, the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force on 2 October 2000. This
Act has implications for the National Health Service, that are speculative and to date largely …