Age limit should be reviewed

Food Standards should be Reviewed and Extended

Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Caroline White, London 204, 64, 207, 105 Current age bands for cancer screening in the United Kingdom seem to have been arbitrarily selected and are not based on rational criteria, according to researchers from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. The age band is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of screening programmes and for identifying priorities in screening polic...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

at what age range should children be circumcised?

conclusions although almost all of the < 1 year-old children could be sedated with midazolam alone, most of the > 1 year-old children required ketamine or general anesthesia. performing circumcision when children are less than 1 year old decreases the risk of complications due to anesthesia and lowers the costs compared with performing the procedure on older children. results a total of 603 chi...

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested?

Should Old-Age Benefits Be Earnings-Tested? We study the welfare effects of earnings testing flat-rate old-age benefits in a quantitative overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals’ expected lifetime utility, whenever other taxes are taken into account. Moreover, it also lowers the realized lifet...