Where social enterprise practitioners draw the line

Where do you draw the line?

Treating prostate cancer: where do we draw the line?

The article by Drs. Lepor and Donin is a provocative look at a timely topic in urologic oncology.[1] There is little debate among experts in the field that we are overtreating prostate cancer at the current time. Studies are ongoing to evaluate active surveillance as an option for low-risk tumors, even in men with very long life expectancies. However, in this review, the authors have overreache...

Data Mining and the Five Pillars of Information Assurance: Where Does Society Draw the Line?

The intent of this paper is to examine the basics of the legal, social and ethical issues implicit in commercial data mining ventures. With the advances in middleware and the enhancements to Business Intelligence tools, mining of the virtual data warehouses is expanding faster than the processes that control them. The question is, “How can organizations apply the 5 pillars of Information Assura...

Replacement of the ascending aorta in bicuspid aortic valve disease: where do we draw the line?

Where to Draw the Line: The Balance Between Research and Medicine.