US policy should not shape collaborations

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...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Family medicine should shape reform, not vice versa.

T he burgeoning of interest in primary care in the United States provides the family medicine community with an opportunity that should not be missed, but one that we are close to wasting. Family medicine is person-focused, not disease-focused; i.e., the rationale for the discipline is based on the health of people and populations, not the one-by-one counting of diseases, their diagnosis and ...

Resuscitation policy should focus on the patient, not the decision

Do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions are made commonly in healthcare but can be a source of ethical concern and legal challenge. They differ from other healthcare decisions because they are made in anticipation of a future event and concern withholding, rather than giving, a treatment. DNACPR decisions were introduced to protect patients from invasive treatments that ...

Impact of US Energy Policy on Crude Oil Prices

The price of Iranian crude oil in different markets depends on the price of US crude oil. In recent months, the oil and gas industry and the sale of Iranian crude oil and the co-operation and investments of oil companies operating in the field of oil field development have halted. Therefore, examining the effects of US government policies on the oil market is very effective. The most important ...