BACKGROUND Heart disease causes 45% of the deaths that occur among U.S. firefighters while they are on duty. We examined duty-specific risks of death from coronary heart disease among on-duty U.S. firefighters from 1994 to 2004. METHODS We reviewed summaries provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the deaths of all on-duty firefighters between 1994 and 2004, except for deaths a...

'IpHREE years ago, on July 1, the whole of the powers and. duties of the Local Government Board, the Insurance Commissioners of England and Wales, various health duties hitherto discharged by the Home Office and the Board of Education as specified in the Act, together with certain powers of the Privy Council, were transferred to the Ministry of Health. But in years past far-sighted men like the...

The first three articles in the Clinical Ethics section of this issue of Journal of Medical Ethics address potential conflicting duties of physicians. The first paper, by Niklas Juth and Niels Lynöe (see page 215, Editor’s choice), reports results of an empirical study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes regarding the provision of virginity certificates or hymen restorations requested by women, of...

In judicial practice, the issue of real inequality between parents in terms exercise their rights and duties over child has been raised, causing much discussion this regard. context, we show article that principle equality does not prohibit certain specific rules. Therefore, stress results from these rules, to extent is natural, imposing it would be tantamount discrimination. Moreover, point ou...

Prominent transhumanists Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson, and Thomas Douglas argue that moral enhancement could solve global poverty. They argue that by engineering individuals with better moral dispositions, they will have better motives, and therefore the will to act more morally. These morally enhanced individuals will more effectively discharge their duties regarding global poverty, thus l...