Source of surgical instruments should be checked, BMA says

Should Aortic Valve Calcification be Checked Before Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?

Where Should the Surgical Neonates be Nursed?

Surgical neonates need specialist medical and nursing care if their outcomes are to be improved. It needs a team of pediatric surgeons, neonatologists, pediatric anesthetists, and trained nurses. However, a key question in the management of these neonates is the place where they should be managed. A recent survey of neonatal surgical units in the UK in 2008 [1] revealed that surgical neonates w...

How Open Should Open Source Be?

Many open-source projects land security fixes in public repositories before shipping these patches to users. This paper presents attacks on such projects—taking Firefox as a case-study—that exploit patch metadata to efficiently search for security patches prior to shipping. Using access-restricted bug reports linked from patch descriptions, security patches can be immediately identified for 260...

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...

Clinical inquiries. Should liver enzymes be checked in a patient taking niacin?