A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths

Independent - An aircraft-style safety test is to be implemented in all British hospitals to reduce the risks of surgery, using a simple checklist that has been proved to save thousands of lives. Surgeons and nurses will run through the checks before each operation in the same way that pilots check their aircraft [...]

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Last chance to save the tuna?

Independent -  Urgent measures to save falling stocks of tuna in the world’s second-biggest tuna fishery, the eastern Pacific, must be launched at a key international meeting this week, conservationists are demanding.

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The new vegetarianism: meat is more murderous than ever

Guardian - There comes this new vegetarian(ish) agenda, and the chance to make the case against meat-eating on more level-headed grounds: that even if meat will remain part of most people’s diet, they are going to have to eat less of it; and that right now, this is actually more about human lives [...]

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Bad Cow Disease

NY Times, by Paul Krugman - The late Milton Friedman agreed, calling for the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration. It was unnecessary, he argued: private companies would avoid taking risks with public health to safeguard their reputations and to avoid damaging class-action lawsuits.

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Sve više školske djece umjesto broja 15 vidi 51

Jutranji list - Od tri do šest posto školske djece pati od diskalkulije, poremećaja koji se manifestira teškoćama u učenju matematike, ustvrdio je prof. Brian Butterworth, neuropsiholog s londonskog University College i vodeći britanski stručnjak za diskalkuliju koji je o tome napisao knjigu “The Matematical Brain”.

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Putting Meat Back in Its Place

NY Times - LET’S suppose you’ve decided to eat less meat, or are considering it. And let’s ignore your reasons for doing so. They may be economic, ethical, altruistic, nutritional or even irrational. The arguments for eating less meat are myriad and well-publicized, but at the moment they’re irrelevant, because what I [...]

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It isn’t the law that has failed the elderly

Telegraph - In Britain, it is perfectly legal to deprive patients of NHS treatment on the grounds that they are too old. That could be about to change, if the Government decides to include the provision of healthcare and other services for the elderly in its new equality Bill.

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