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Should Employers Be Permitted not to Hire Smokers? A Review of US Legal Provisions

Background Increasingly, healthcare and non-healthcare employers prohibit or penalize the use of tobacco products among current and new employees in the United States. Despite this trend, and for a range of different reasons, around half of states currently legally protect employees from being denied positions, or having employment contracts terminated, due to tobacco use.   Methods We undertoo...

Should Advertising by Aesthetic Surgeons be Permitted?

Should Advertising by Aesthetic Surgeons be Permitted?

Cosmetic, aesthetic and cutaneous surgical procedures require qualified specialists trained in the various procedures and competent to handle complications. However, it also requires huge investments in terms of infrastructure, trained staff and equipment. To be viable advertising is essential to any establishment which provides cosmetic and aesthetic procedures. Business men with deep pockets ...

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...

Should pediatric infectious diseases physicians be proponents of probiotics?

Probiotics are live bacteria or fungi deliberately introduced into the gastrointestinal (GI) tract in an attempt to prevent or treat a disease state. Probiotics are believed to work using three mechanisms (1,2). The first is a direct antimicrobial effect. Probiotic strains are postulated to ‘crowd out’ pathogenic GI flora and to compete with them for elements, such as iron, to act as ‘decoy bin...