NICE and its value judgments: Option of safe “understudy” treatments should be available

NICE and its value judgments: utilitarian values are inadequate.

Letter NICE and its value judgments Utilitarian values are inadequate EDITOR—The values of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) turn out to be utilitarian and economic.1 Predictably, NICE's attempt to use them to generate advice to professionals for achieving the highest attainable standard of care often founders on the narrowness of perspective. High quality care demands an un...

NICE and its value judgments: favourable appraisal amounts to compulsory purchase order.

The reason why NICE has not appraised yoga or transcendental meditation for stress and hypertension, or a lifestyle intervention involving 3-4 kg weight loss and 150 minutes of moderately vigorous physical activity a week as a "technology" that cuts the risk of overt diabetes by 50% is obvious. It would have been interesting to see how the implementation of such technologies would have been enf...

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...

Which treatment option should be used?

Safe food: should we be afraid?

comment on Schmidt CW: Safe food: an all-consuming issue. Environ Health Perspect 107:A144-A149 (1999).