Article Watch: April 2015

Cover vol. 12, no.2, April 2015

Persian-translation vol. 12, no.2, April 2015

NSIDRC Journal Article Alert – April 2007

• Work schedule during pregnancy and spontaneous abortion. • Genetic evaluation of stillbirth in United States holsteins using a sirematernal grandsire threshold model. • Combining internal and external validation data to correct for exposure misclassification: A case study. • Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in the paragigantocellularis lateralis decreases shivering during cooling in the conscio...

Workers’ Memorial Day — April 28, 2015

411 Work-Related Asthma Cluster at a Syntactic Foam Manufacturing Facility — Massachusetts 2008–2013 415 Tracking Progress Toward Polio Eradication — Worldwide, 2013–2014 421 Optimal Serum and Red Blood Cell Folate Concentrations in Women of Reproductive Age for Prevention of Neural Tube Defects: World Health Organization Guidelines 424 Announcements 427 QuickStats Workers’ Memorial Day — April...

Enough article March-April 2004 Hastings Center Report (Adobe PDF)

Enough. The living will has failed, and it is time to say so. We should have known it would fail: A notable but neglected psychological literature always provided arresting reasons to expect the policy of living wills to misfire. Given their alluring potential, perhaps they were worth trying. But a crescendoing empirical literature and persistent clinical disappointments reveal that the rewards...