Is Saccharin Safe? Animal Testing Revisited

Is saccharin safe? Animal testing revisited.

The ability to predict harmful effects of chemicals, drugs, and food additives has historically depended on the process of extrapolating from animal studies. The current guidelines of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommend nine animalbased studies to assess the safety of additives used directly in food handling or preparation or at the table in amounts in excess of 1 part per million i...

Is Daycare Tonsillectomy Safe?

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon.  Usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. With the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  Materials and Methods: A...

Safe Weak Minimization Revisited

Minimization operators of different strength have been studied in the framework of “predicative (safe) recursion”. In this paper a modification of these operators is presented. By adding the new operator to those used by Bellantoni-Cook and Leivant to characterize the polynomial-time computable functions one obtains a characterization of the nondeterministic polynomial-time computable multifunc...

Animal testing: is it worth it?

is daycare tonsillectomy safe?

introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by ear, nose, and throat surgeon.  usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. with the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis.  materials and methods: a...