US considers ban on British blood

British hunting ban had no effect on fox numbers

Effect of an eight week smoking ban on women at US navy recruit training command.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of a unique organisational smoking ban on female United States Navy recruits, a population with historically high smoking rates. SETTING AND DESIGN Study participants were female recruits (n = 5503) entering the Navy recruit training command between March 1996 and March 1997 (12 consecutive months). Participants completed smoking surveys at entry to recruit tra...

The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total Dietary Fat.

Blackburn on the Ban on Mixed

【Subject Class】Ethics, Meta-Ethics 【Keyword】Moral Realism, Moral Projectivism, Moral Facts, Moral Supervenience, Simon Blackburn 【Abstract】This is a realist response to Blackburn’s version of the explanatory inadequacy of the moral thesis based on the ban on mixed worlds, and to its possible explanatory reductionism version. First, the moral supervenience relationship is made explicit, for the ...

To ban or not to ban?

The past four years have seen a steady increase in the number of companies that offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing services and in the number of such tests for genetic risk factors, including a wide range of diseases and other non-disease-related traits. These companies sell their tests outside the traditional healthcare setting and often do not involve healthcare professionals for ...