New EC directive threatens life-saving trials
Europeans should wake up to the threat of a new European Directive, which will make many potentially life-saving studies performed in emergency medicine impossible, warn researchers in this week's BMJ. ...... The Directive could stop trials of treatments for patients rendered suddenly mentally incapacitated by, for example, cardiac arrest, head injury, or stroke because many of these patients are...Database technology threatens liberty
. Draconian Medical Records Provisions Added to Financial Services Modernization.Bill . .Washington, DC- As the nation begins the Fourth of July weekend, with its.celebration of freedom, one of the foundations of freedom is being eroded. . .Medical records privacy provisions which have been added to the financial.services modernization bill (H.R. 10) would allow for extensive disclosures.without...Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic Threatens Developing Countries, Global Economy
.NR 98-4859 (Cir/Reddy). DALLAS, Feb. 17 -- Developing nations, including China and India, face.an epidemic of heart disease and stroke that could devastate their economies,.researchers report in today's Circulation: Journal of the American Heart.Association.. The lead author of the study, K. Srinath Reddy, M.D., D.M, says, "It.will impede economic expansion within the countries...