Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement

Should Food Be Excluded from Core CPI?

T he consumer price index (CPI) measures the prices urban consumers pay for a representative basket of goods and services. The CPI is one of the most important measures of inflation. The prices of many products and services are directly linked to changes in the CPI. For instance, when the CPI increases, Social Security benefits and wages stated in labor contracts may rise as well. Forecasting f...

Should genes with missing data be excluded from phylogenetic analyses?

Phylogeneticists often design their studies to maximize the number of genes included but minimize the overall amount of missing data. However, few studies have addressed the costs and benefits of adding characters with missing data, especially for likelihood analyses of multiple loci. In this paper, we address this topic using two empirical data sets (in yeast and plants) with well-resolved phy...

Should newborn infants be excluded from multiple research studies?

Many infants admitted to neonatal intensive care, especially those born prematurely, are eligible to participate in several research studies. Uniquely, newborns may also have indirectly been involved in research if their mothers were recruited to studies while pregnant. The website of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine lists 20 ongoing clinical trials in which many units in Europe wi...

NHS should be exempt from EU-US free trade treaty, campaigners say.

A petition calling for the NHS to be exempted from an agreement on free trade between the United States and the European Union is to be submitted to Prime Minister David Cameron and England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt. The petition hosted by the campaigning organisation 38 Degrees calls on Cameron to ensure that the NHS is not part of the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP...

The North American Free Trade Agreement.