Focus on patients, the rest will follow, says new CMA pres

Pack pooches in the cargo hold, CMA says.

Canada needs a "dialogue about death," says CMA president.

concerns, Canada is facing a crisis surrounding end-of-life care, Dr. Louis Hugo Francescutti, president of the Canadian Medical Association, told the Eco nomic Club of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 19. The end of life is difficult to face at the best of times, but Canadians need to open a “dialogue about death,” said Francescutti. This is particularly pressing in light of the upcoming vote o...

The mind will follow.

So subtle yet so savage was my descent into madness that my friends and neighbors, looking for a cause, thought I must have done something terribly wrong. It was 1979. I was 23. In the community where I had lived since I was a small child, many people believed God would not inflict such painful and irregular behavior on someone unless he or she deserved it. If I were not personally culpable, su...

Act, and the Rest Will Follow: Exploiting Determinism in Planning as Satisfiability

In this paper we focus on Planning as Satisfiability (SAT). We build from the simple consideration that the values of fluents at a certain time point derive deterministically from the initial situation and the sequence of actions performed till that point. Thus, the choice of actions to perform is the only source of nondeterminism. This is a rather trivial consideration, but which has important...

Marijuana smoke hazardous, says CMA, plus more news from the annual meeting.