this is more than a study in the jurisprudence of regulation and of technology. The book also contains important and instructive essays in medical law (particularly), seeking, as it does, to explicate many of the background debates (for example on consent (pp 72–86) and information rights (pp 87–98), on the (legitimate and illegitimate) purposive interpretation of key texts such as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and embryonic stem cell research (pp 47–56, 168–184), property in human tissue (pp 61–68) and genetic databases and forensic collections (pp 215–235), each of which is often treated in a more or less superficial way in some of the standard texts and commentaries, where judicial and legislative statements are offered without background context beyond some preferred ethical standpoint. And there are considerations of bioethics generally (pp 32–47, 100–118), patenting and human life forms (187–195), gambling (197–201), nanotechnology (pp 118–125).
Satisfaction with NHS is high but it may be bad news Satisfaction with the NHS has been rising steadily for the past decade and is at an all-time high – but that could spell bad news for patients. The more satisfied patients are with their medical care, the more likely they are to die, US researchers have found.
Die Heilberufsverbände fordern in einer Erklärung zum Freihandelsabkommen TTIP eine Positivliste für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen. Europa-Experte Alfred von der Bundeszahnärztekammer erklärt, was es damit auf sich hat.
The patent system is in crisis, and it endangers the future of software development in the United States. Let's create a system that defends innovation, instead of hindering it.
The Alabama Inventors Database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library compiles these records and updates the database on an ongoing basis. Each record contains a link to the Web site of the USPTO where scanned images of the original documents may be viewed using TIFF software.
An anonymous reader writes "An article at Dr. Dobb's looks into the consequences of a dangerous idea from Oracle during their legal battle with Google: 'that Google had violated Oracle's Java copyrights by reimplementing Java APIs in Android.' The issue is very much unsettled in the courts, but the ...