A dvance directives indicate who a person would want to make treatment decisions on his or her behalf and what treatments a person would or would not want in various situations. 1,2 Completed by a person who can understand and appreciate the consequences of treatment decisions (i.e., when he or she is competent or capable), an advance directive is used at a time when the person has become incom...

A new directive to all Catholic institutions within the Ft. W ayne-South Bend diocese may affect the future o f Mardi Gras at N otre Dame, according to Student Activities Director James M cDonnell. Bishop William McManus in­ itiated the directive, which pro­ hibits gambling for charitable causes. According to M cDonnell, the directive results from an incident that took place in Ft. W ayne last ...

BACKGROUND Advance directives are widely promoted as a means to plan for patients' decisional incapacity, yet there is little evidence of their effectiveness. We devised a study to assess physicians' compliance with hypothetical advance directives and further examine their clinical reasoning. METHODS The study consisted of an analysis of a mailed written survey containing 6 hypothetical cases...

∗ National University of Singapore. Corresponding author: Ivan Png, Dept of Information Systems, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Tel: +65 6516-6807, http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ipng/. We thank participants at ... seminars at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Oxford University, ... for helpful advice. Ivan Png thanks Nuffield College for k...

BACKGROUND Current, ongoing national surveys do not include questions about end-of-life (EOL) issues. In particular, population-based data are lacking regarding the factors associated with advance directive completion. PURPOSE To characterize U.S. adults who did and did not have an advance directive and examine factors associated with their completion, such as the presence of a chronic condit...

Several European Union Members States exempted the implementation of the EMC Directive for defence contracts. According the lawyers, and validated in a court case, this is illegal, and thus the EMC Directive is applicable for military equipment too, except when an exemption for a clearly defined case has been granted. The European Commission confirmed this conclusion in an interpretative commun...

A short overview is given of the current situation regarding the draft seventh amendment to the EU cosmetics directive, Directive 76/768/EEC. Future perspectives are discussed.

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