Tag: Jon Wesley Boyd

  • Science & Tech

    Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks

    More than a decade after Harvard Medical School researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks – prompting calls upon them to divest – the insurance industry has yet to kick the habit, they say. A letter about insurance company holdings, published in the June 4 issue of…

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  • Science & Tech

    Survey: Med students ill prepared for ethical issues faced in wartime

    A new survey of U.S. medical students shows they receive little training about what they should or should not do in wartime, despite ethical questions over physician involvement in prisoner interrogation and a legal framework making a “doctor draft” possible. The study shows that 94 percent of medical students who took an online survey said…

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