Medical Malpractice Litigation: Alternatives for Pennsylvania

The medical malpractice crisis of the last decade produced legislative responses in several states, including Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania\u27s malpractice act was declared unconstitutional by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, however, and the state\u27s malpractice arbitration system now shows little potential for dispute resolution. The author examines the Pennsylvania statute-and the reasons for its demise-as well as the performance of several alternative methods currently functioning in other states. She concludes that the most promising option for Pennsylvania is a system of voluntary binding arbitration

The Rights to Marry and Divorce: A New Look at Some Unanswered Questions

Part I of the Article explores the status of marriage as a fundamental right. Part II examines the standard used by the Zablocki Court to invalidate the Wisconsin statute. Part II also addresses the issues of whether the Court applied an appropriate standard in reviewing the statute and whether Zablocki and subsequent cases should be addressed as due process rather than as equal protection cases. Part III sets forth some of the traditional restrictions states have placed on individuals\u27 decisions to marry (for example, age, mental competence, incest) and some more modem restrictions (such as tax laws, nepotism rules and prison marriage rules) that may be included within the Zablocki approach, and discusses whether these restrictions must now fall as unconstitutional restraints on the fundamental right to marry. Part IV extends the right to marry into the realm of divorce and analyzes whether the two rights are in fact opposites and whether the decision in Zablocki should signal a new approach to state restrictions on divorce

The epidemiology of regular opioid use and its association with mortality : Prospective cohort study of 466 486 UK biobank participants

Acknowledgments This work did not receive any external sources of funding. Data was supplied by UK Biobank under the terms of application reference number 1144. Data sharing agreement On acceptance of a manuscript using UK Biobank data, the authors are required to submit the dataset (including any derived variables) and the analysis programs to UK Biobank. Data are available to researchers by application.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Changes to parental consent procedures in South Africa - implications for school-based adolescent sexual health research

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Observations of C-Band Brightness Temperature from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) on Board NASA WB-57 During GRIP in Hurricanes Earl And Karl (2010)

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