May Sarton: Old Age is a Foreign Country, 1997

Letters - 31 May 1997

Editor—Five years ago, when we published our research on the discrimination faced by ethnic minority doctors applying for posts as senior house officers, the Department of Health considered using our methodology to monitor progress in tackling discrimination. At a recent BMA conference to discuss racial discrimination in the medical profession several speakers pointed out that racial discrimina...

Old age is not a disease.

NAS News - May-June 1997

Fullerene-based Nanoelectronic Devices Show `Tremendous Potential' Researchers at the NAS Facility are examining the role of the fullerene structure -a form of carbon -in creating electronic devices for the next century. In this article, scientists Jie Han and Subhash Saini give a bird's-eye view of the transition from conventional CMOS-based semiconductor devices to quantum devices, and discus...

In vitro fertilization and age. When old is too old?

This case report refers to a 53-year-old female patient who deliberately misinformed the staff of the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic using counterfeit documents concerning her real age and underwent the IVF procedure. During the pregnancy it was discovered accidentally that the patient was not telling the whole truth about her real age. In the 34(th) week of pregnancy two healthy twins hav...

The Country Risks and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

T he importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has begun to spread very rapidly, especially after the transition of command economies countries into open markets. Many countries see attracting FDI as an important element in their strategy for economic growth because FDI is widely regarded as an amalgamation of capital, technology, marketing, and management...