What Is and What Should Pragmatic Ethics Be?

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...

hajj and swine flu pandemic (h1n1, 2009): what is ex-pected and what should be done?

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.    

Posttonsillectomy hemorrhage: what is it and what should be recorded?

OBJECTIVES To report on our incidence of posttonsillectomy hemorrhage and to define what constituted posttonsillectomy bleeding. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital and a local satellite facility. PATIENTS A series of 1438 consecutive patients who had undergone either tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 1999. IN...