Removing Obstacles to a Peaceful Death

Removing unnecessary obstacles to randomised trials

Since their introduction in the middle of the 20 Century, randomised trials of sufficiently large size have provided reliable assessments of the safety and efficacy of treatments that have produced substantial improvements in health. During the past decade, however, increasingly onerous (albeit well-meaning) regulation and related bureaucracy have made clinical trials much more difficult and co...

Advanced care planning--empowering patients for a peaceful death.

In the early 1900's, Americans had a life expectancy of about 50 years. Childhood mortality was very high and an adult who lived into their sixties was considered to be doing pretty well. Prior to the advent of different types of antibiotics, people would die quickly of infectious disease or accidents and medicine only really focused on caring and comfort. Since then, there has been a shift in ...

Removing Obstacles to Economic Growth in Mozambique a Diagnostic Trade Integration Study

Topological Combinatorics" A Peaceful Pursuit

The diversion of science to destructive purposes is as old as science itself. The observation that a club, knife, spear or arrow useful to bring down an animal could be used to similar effect against "the enemy" in the next village was readily perverted to the design of weapons strictly for anti-personnel purposes. Even while enhancing the human condition, science has degraded and brutalized it...

Removing obstacles to the pedagogical changes required by Jonassen's vision of authentic technology-enabled learning

Educators have been striving to achieve meaningful technology use in our K-12 classrooms for over 30 years. Yet, despite significant investments of time and money in infrastructure, training, and support “we have few assurances that [educators] are able to use technology for teaching and learning” (NEA, 2008, p. 1). In this article, we call for a shift in focus from technology integration (and ...