Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century

Providence Health Care’s 2nd Annual Health Ethics Seminar

Conference Centre, 2nd Floor, 1190 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC

April 19 to April 22, 2010

Providence Health Care Ethics Services is offering their second annual
Health Ethics Seminar April 19 to April 22, 2010. Titled “Health Care
Ethics in the 21st Century”, this intensive four day course offered by
leaders in bioethics, law and medicine has been designed to help
clinicians as well as leaders identify and resolve ethical issues
arising in the clinical and organizational contexts of healthcare.

Participants will join an expert faculty to explore the following topics:
• Introduction to Bioethics
• Ethics, Law and Morality
• Organizational Ethics
• Resource Allocation & Public Policy
• Medical Decision Making
• Cultural Diversity in Health Care
• End-of-Life Care
• Moral Distress
• Ethics Consultation
• Professional Ethics

Please click on the link to download a program and a registration form:
http://www.providencehealthcare.org/ethics%5Fservices/health-ethics-seminars.html
Or email June at: jmonthatawil@providencehealth.bc.ca or call 604-806-9952.

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 35, Number 12, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008: A Missed Opportunity?” by Amel Alghrani, 718-719.
• “Clinical Ethics: Genetic Selection for Deafness: The Views of Hearing Children or Deaf Adults” by C Mand, R E Duncan, L Gillam, V Collins, and M B Delatycki; 722-728.
• “Clinical Ethics: Medical Chaperoning at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia: Survey of Physicians” by E A Al-Gaai and M M Hammami, 729-732.
• “Clinical Ethics: Best Interests, Dementia and the Mental Capacity Act (2005)” by T Hope, A Slowther, and J Eccles; 733-738.
• “Ethics: Who Gets the Liver Transplant? The Use of Responsibility as the Tie Breaker” by V Thornton, 739-742.
• “Ethics: Can the Catholic Church Agree to Condom Use by HIV-discordant Couples?” by L Bovens, 743-746.
• “Ethics: Moral Pluralism Versus the Total View: Why Singer is Wrong About Radical Life Extension” by R Blackford, 747-752.
• “Research Ethics: The ‘How’ and ‘Whys’ of Research: Life Scientists’ Views of Accountability” by J M Ladd, M D Lappé, J B McCormick, A M Boyce, and M K Cho; 762-767.
• “Research Ethics: Embryonic Stem Cell Research is Not Dehumanising Us” by L Kostergaard, 774-777.
• “Does Bioethics Exist?” by L Turner, 778-780.

American Journal of Transplantation (Volume 9, Issue 12, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Race and Ethnicity in Access to and Outcomes of Liver Transplantation: A Critical Literature Review” by A. K. Mathur, C.J. Sonneday, and R.M. Merion; 2662-2668.
• “Impact of Medicare Coverage on Disparities in Access to Simultaneous Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation” by J. K. Melancon, L. M. Kucirka, L. E. Boulware, N. R. Powe, J. E. Locke, R. A. Montgomery, and D. L. Segev; 2785-2791.
• “Predictors of Having a Potential Live Donor: A Prospective Cohort Study of Kidney Transplant Candidates” by P. P. Reese, J. A. Shea, R. D. Bloom, J. S. Berns, R. Grossman, M. Joffe, A. Huverserian, and H. I. Feldman; 2792-2799.
• “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mortality in Children Awaiting Heart Transplant in the United States” by T. P. Singh, K. Gauvreau, R. Thiagarajan, E. D. Blume, G. Piercey, and C. S. Almond; 2808-2815.
• “Reimbursing Live Organ Donors for Incurred Non-Medical Expenses: A Global Perspective on Policies and Programs” by M. Sickand, M. S. Cuerden, S. W. Klarenbach, A. O. Ojo, C. R. Parikh, N. Boudville, and A. X. Garg; 2825-2836.
• Book Review: “When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors” by D. W. Hanto, 2855-2855.

Australian Journal on Ageing (Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Article include:

• “Delirium Unit: Our Experience” by Dorothy Milly Wong Tin Niam, John AA Geddes, and Charles A Inderjeeth; 206-210
• “Understanding How Advance Care Planning is Approached in the Residential Aged Care Setting: A Continuum Model of Practice as an Explanatory Device” by Christopher Shanley, Elizabeth Whitmore, Angela Khoo, Colleen Cartwright, Amanda Walker, and Robert G Cumming; 211-215

Clinical Transplantation (Volume 23, Issue 6, November/December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “CMS Oversight, OPOs and Transplant Centers and the Law of Unintended Consequences” by Richard J. Howard, Danielle L. Cornell, and Jesse D. Schold; 778-783
• “Transplant Tourism to China: The Impact on Domestic Patient-care Decisions” by Scott W. Biggins, Kiran Bambha, Norah Terrault, John Inadomi, John P. Roberts, and Nathan Bass; 831-838
• “Disparity in Utilization of Combined Kidney-liver Transplantation in the United States” by S.D. Mehta and D.J. Leehey, 938-942

The Senate took another step forward in the health care debate Thursday, casting its first votes on what is certain to be a long series of politically charged amendments. The chamber approved a Democratic-sponsored amendment to provide women with low-cost mammograms and other preventative tests, while rejecting a GOP proposal to prevent government boards from influencing coverage of screening tests for women. (CNN)

The government announced it will host travelling consultations on the thorny question of assisted suicide.

It will first consult about 20 experts on the subject, and prepare a discussion paper that will help guide the discussions. (The Canadian Press)

By mimicking the way that a living body acquires immunity to disease through vaccination, researchers have designed an artificial immune system to solve optimization problems more effectively than before. The results show that the biologically motivated approach is better at exploring a greater amount of space and quickly locating the desired local and global optima than previous methods. (PhysOrg)

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Approximately one half of patients and the general public believe that identifiable patient data should never be used for research without consent.

Whilst only 11 per cent of researchers believed this should never happen, 53 per cent of the general public and 46 per cent of patients thought it was unacceptable without prior consent. (Public Service)

The National Institutes of Health cleared 13 human embryonic stem cell lines for use in experiments by federally funded scientists, opening the door to a new era of research into promising but controversial treatments.

The move Wednesday is part of a new federal policy that supporters of stem cell research expected the Obama administration to champion and could have implications for California’s stem cell research funding organization. (San Francisco Business Times)

The U.S. government approved the first 13 batches of human embryonic stem cells on Wednesday, enabling researchers using them to get millions of dollars in federal funding as promised by President Barack Obama in March. (Reuters)

Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have discovered a possible way to protect the fragile lungs of premature babies by using stem cells harvested from bone marrow. In experiments on laboratory mice, they found that bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs), a type of stem cell with the potential to form lung cells, were able to reduce inflammation in lung tissue. Inflammation is the key factor that leads to chronic lung disease in premature babies. Surprisingly, even the fluid in which the cells were grown was able to protect the lungs - in fact, better than the stem cells themselves. (PhysOrg)

Five months after abruptly dismantling the bioethics advisory council left by his predecessor, US President Barack Obama last week created a new bioethics commission that will move beyond the issues that consumed previous panels, such as stem cells and cloning. Based within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is explicitly charged with recommending legislative and regulatory action and promises to have more influence on policy. (Nature News)

A new study points to promising use of adult stem cells, which can be injected into the arm or leg and heal hearts. (Miami Herald)

I spent a day last month shadowing hospice workers from the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. With each visit to the homes of four patients whose lives were ebbing, the caring, patience, attention and expertise I observed left me wondering why all medicine is not like this — focused on the whole person, not just a disease. (New York Times)

Journal of Academic Ethics (Volume 7, Numbers 1-2, June 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Protecting Human Dignity in Research Involving Humans” by Thomas De Koninck, 17-25.
• “Reflections on My Experience in Human Research Ethics” by K. G. Davey, 27-31.
• “Moral Integrity and Academic Research” by J. Angelo Corlett, 45-49.
• “The Ethics of Conducting Community-Engaged Homelessness Research” by Vivien Runnels, Elizabeth Hay, Elyse Sevigny, and Paddi O’Hara; 57-68.
• “End of Life Pediatric Research: What About the Ethics?” by Danielle Laudy, 87-91.
• “Health Research in Complex Emergencies: A Humanitarian Imperative” by John D. Pringle and Donald C. Cole, 115-123.

Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “The Ethical Basis for Sustainable Human Security: A Place for Anthropocentrism?” by Alexander K. Lautensach, 437-455.
• “Neonatal Euthanasia- Why Require Parental Consent?” by Jacob M. Appel, 477-482.
• “Pastoral Power and the Confessing Subject in Patient-Centered Communication” by Christopher Mayes, 483-493.
• “The ‘Obligation’ to Screen and Its Effect on Autonomy” by Yvonne Lau and Chrystal Jaye, 495-505.

JAMA (Volume 302, Number 20, November 25, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “The Proposed Excise Tax on Employee Health Insurance: Good Idea, or Too Clever by 40%?” by Samuel Y. Sessions and Allan S. Detsky, 2252-2253.
• “HIV/AIDS-Still a Force to Be Reckoned With: Call for Papers” Gianna Zuccotti and Jeanette M. Smith, 2259.
• “The First Composite Face and Maxilla Transplant” by Wayne F. Larrabee and Peter A. Hilger, 2250-2251.
• “Hormone Therapy Use and Risk of Ovarian Cancer” by Alastair H. MacLennan and Rodney Baber, 2203.
• “Improving Access to FDA Reviews and Dcouments” by Donald A. Tuttle, Larry D. Sasich, and Sana R. Sukkari, 2204.
• “Safe Vaccination Usually Possible in Persons with Suspected Vaccine Allergies” by Mike Mitka, 2193.

Archives of Internal Medicine (Volume 169, Issue 21, November 23, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles Include:

• “Home is Where the Health Is: Advancing Team-Based Care in Chronic Disease Management” by Helene Levens Lipton, 1945-1948.
• “Bringing the FDA’s information to Market” by Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, 1985-1987.