The authors analyze a retrospective study of the outcome of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in 49 very low birth weight (less than 1500 g) newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of the University of ...

How are we to decide where our scarce medical resources are most effectively spent? The notion of a quality-adjusted-life-year has been proposed as a way of doing this. Some economists appear to think that this can be ...

The main purpose of this paper (1) is to draw attention to a gap between the principles of Common Law and the principles accepted by many leading medical practitioners on the ethics of allowing severely handicapped infants ...

During the period between 1977 and the first quarter of 1988, 35 countries liberalized their abortion laws and four countries limited grounds for the procedure. Most legislation has extended abortion eligibility ...