Iam now a fourth-year resident in internal medicine and have just completed the Medical
Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE) Part II examination. In 1994 I wrote to …

On 3 June 1992 the United Kingdom's Court of Appeal, in a landmark decision, overturned
an earlier High Court ruling that had required a London hospital to provide life support for a …

FEW AREAS exist in medicine today in which the ethical and legal issues are so diverse and
complex, and in which public policy is so uncertain, as in those situations that involve the …

Draft revised stillbirth and early infant death certificates were sent with a short questionnaire
to certifying doctors for 206 stillbirths and 198 neonatal deaths for which death certificates …

The Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA), passed by Congress in 2002, has attracted
little publicity. Its purposes were, in part,“to repudiate the flawed notion that a child's …

Newborn Screening — Setting Evidence-Based Policy for Protection | New England Journal of
Medicine Skip to main content Access provided by Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin The New …

Mark A. Rothstein serves as the section editor for Currents in Contemporary Ethics.
Professor Rothstein is the Herbert F. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and the Director of …

There is no question that the world of children—and thus, that of Pediatrics—has changed in
the 20 years since I graduated from medical school. Then, heading off to my internship and …

There is little agreement about what constitutes good developmental paediatric practice at
the level of primary care. Many of the available screening tests are intrinsically unsatisfactory …

EDrTOR,-In 1992, at the second international conference on the sudden infant death
syndrome in Australia, it was decided to keep the 1969 definition:" the death of an infant or …