JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 4; January 27, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Assessing the Legal Standard of Care in Public Health Emergencies” by James G. Hodge Jr and Brooke Courtney, 361-362.
• “Improving Health by Taking It Personally” by Ralph Snyderman and Michaela A. Dian, 363-364.
• “Ethnic Shifts Raise Issues in Elder Care” by Rebecca Voelker, 321.
• “Stem Cell Lines Cleared” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 322.

Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170; No. 2; Jan. 25, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Tackling Obesity: Is Primary Care Up to the Challenge?” by Robert F. Kushner, 121-123.

The decision, though specific to Illinois, could deal a blow to efforts to change malpractice laws elsewhere. Recall, that last fall the administration promised to fund state experiments in dealing with medical malpractice to the tune of $25 million. Lately, the notion that changes in how malpractice is handled could save a lot of money even got a thumbs-up from the Congressional Budget Office. (NPR)

A recent case study by doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York examined the ethical issues posed by transplant tourism. Full details of the study appear in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a subscription journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD). (IMTJ)

ABOARD THE USNS COMFORT — Yvelot Brianville, 24, lies quietly on a steel hospital gurney, a boyish naval officer in blue combat fatigues standing by his side. (USA TODAY)

JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 2; January 13, 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “The Benefits and Harms of Mammography Screening: Understanding the Trade-offs” by Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, 164-165.
• “Mammography Screening for Breast Cancer: A View from 2 Worlds” by Anne M. Murphy, 166-167.
• “US Preterm Births: ‘D’ is for Dismal” by Rebecca Voelker, 116-117.

The American Journal of Bioethics (Volume 10, Issue 1, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Drug Detailers, Professionalism, and Prudence” by Howard Brody, 9-10.
• “Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals” by Carson Strong, 13-15.
• “The Pitfalls of Misreading: What Does ‘Industry Funding of Medical Education’ Actually Say?” by Bethany Spielman, 24-25.
• “Avoiding Over-Deterrence in Managing Physicians’ Relationships with Industry” by Lance K. Stell, 27-29.
• “Growth Attenuation: Good Intentions, Bad Decision” by Adrienne Asch and Anna Stubblefield, 46-48.
• “The Limits of Parental Authority” by Barry Lyons, 48-50.
• “Revisiting the Relevance of the Social Model of Disability” by Sarah Goering, 54-55.
• “What Role Should Moral Intuitions Play When Dealing with Children?” D. Micah Hester, 56.

JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 3; January 20, 2010)  is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Garnering Support for Advance Care Planning” by Terri R. Fried and Margaret Drickamer, 269-270.
• “Public Health Response to Influenza A(H1N1) as an Opportunity to Build Public Trust” by Heidi J. Larson and David L. Heymann, 271-272.
• “New HIV Recommendations” by Joan Stephenson, 215.
• “Severe Childhood Obesity” by Joan Stephenson, 215.
• “Lung Cancer Screening” by Joan Stephenson, 215.

Life is complicated — especially when it comes to our health. Once we reach a certain age, we start to realize that health is a variable, not a constant. Our knees ache, our pace slows, and we’re diagnosed with diabetes or even cancer. And because the stakes are so high and the options so dizzying, we may stop engaging with our health altogether. We let doctors and insurance companies decide on our care, and we focus our energies on what we can control — our bank accounts, our relationships, but not, alas, our health. (Wired)

Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (Volume 13, Number 1, February 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Molecular Medicine and Concepts of Disease: The Ethical Value of a Conceptual Analysis of Emerging Biomedical Technologies” by Marianne Boenink, 11-23.
• “Rational Suicide: Philosophical Perspectives on Schizophrenia” by Jeanette Hewitt, 25-31.
• “‘It’s Intense, You Know.’ Nurses’ Experience in Caring for Patients Requesting Euthanasia,” by Yvonne Denier, Bernadette Dierckx De Casterlé, Nele De Bal, and Chris Gastmans; 41-48.
• “How to Reveal Disguised Paternalism” by Niels Lynoe, Niklas Juth, and Gert Helgesson; 59-65.
• “Problems Faced with Legislating for IVF Technology in a Roman Catholic Century” by Pierre Mallia, 77-87.

If you’ve got health insurance, get ready for higher premiums to pay for the health care bill. (Why ObamaCare Will Raise Your Bill - Forbes)

The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Commentary: Emerging Technologies Oversight: Research, Regulation, and Commercialization” by Robbin Johnson, 587-593.
  
• “Evaluating Oversight of Human Drugs and Medical Devices: A Case Study of the FDA and Implications for Nanobiotechnology” by Jordan Paradise, Alison W. Tisdale, Ralph F. Hall, and Efrosini Kokkoli; 598-624.
• “Gene Therapy Oversight: Lessons for Nanobiotechnology” by Susan M. Wolf, Rishi Gupta, and Peter Kohlhepp; 659-684.
• “Science, Ethics, and the ‘Problems’ of Governing Nanotechnologies” by Linda F. Hogle, 749-758.
• “Introduction: Comparative Health Law and Policy: What, If Anything, Can We Learn from Other Countries?” by Diane Hoffmann, 790-791.
• “Realization of the International Human Right to Health in an Economically Integrated North America” by Eleanor D. Kinney, 807-818.
• “Tobacco Industry Use of Corporate Social Responsibility Tactics as a Sword and a Shield on Secondhand Smoke Issues” Lissy C. Friedman, 819-827.

Bioethics (Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Are Recent Defences of the Brain Death Concept Adequate?” by Ari Joffe, 47-53.
• “Ethical Debate Over Organ Donation in the Context of Brain Death” by Mary Jiang Bresnahan and Kevin Mahler, 54-60.
• “Could a Zygote by a Human Being?” by John Burgess, 61-70.
• “Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict of Liberties” by Joyce C. Havstad, 71-77.
• “Living to the Bitter End? A Personalist Approach to Euthanasia in Persons with Severe Dementia” by Chris Gasmans and Jan De Lepeleire, 78-86.
• “Patient Autonomy, Assessment of Competence and Surrogate Decision-Making: A Call for Reasonableness in Deciding for Others” by KRISTINE BÆRØE, 87-95.

Consumers will be able to view more than 100 quality measures for each hospital, as well as cost information. (American Medical News)

Journal of Medical Ethics (Volume 36, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Clinical Ethics: Ascribing Intentions in Clinical Decision-making” by L A Jansen and J S Fogel, 2-6.
• “Clinical Ethics: ‘It’s Crucial They’re Treated as Patients’: Ethical Guidance and Empirical Evidence Regarding Treating Doctor-Patients” by F E fox, G J Taylor, M F Harris, K J Rodham, J Sutton, J Scott, and B Robinson; 7-11.
• “Ethics: When Physicians Forego the Doctor-patient Relationship, Should They Elect to Self-Proscribe or Curbside? An Empirical and Ethical Analysis” by J K Walter, C W Lang, and L F Ross; 19-23.
• “Law, Ethics and Medicine: The Right Not to Know and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for Huntington’s Disease” by E Asscher and B-J Koops, 30-33.
• “Research Ethics: Payment for Participation in Research: A Pursuit for the Poor?” by M Stones and J McMillan, 34-36.
• “Research Ethics: An Investigation of Patients’ Motivations for their Participation in Genetics-related Research” by N Hallowell, S Cooke, G Crawford, A Lucassen, M Parker, and C Snowdon; 37-45.
• “Teaching and Learning Ethics: A Practical Approach to Teaching Medical Ethics” by S Mills and D C Bryden, 50-54.

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 01, January 2010) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Not Dead Yet: Controlled Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation, Consent, and the Dead Donor Rule” by Dale Gardiner and Robert Sparrow, 17-26.
• “Just Caring: In Defense of Limited Age-Based Healthcare Rationing” by Leonard M. Fleck, 27-37.
• “Actualizable Potential, Reproduction, and Embryo Research: Bringing Embryos into Existence for Different Purposes or Not at All” by Ingmar Persson and Julian Savulescu, 51-60.
• “Consequentialism Without Consequences: Ethics and Embryo Research” by Sarah Chan and John Harris, 61-74.
• “Choosing Deafness with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: An Ethical Way to Carry On a Cultural Bloodline?” by Silvia Camporesi, 86-96.
• “When is My Genetic Information Your Business? Biological, Emotional, and Financial Claims to Knowledge” by Ruth Wilkinson, 110-117.
• “Dignity: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Still Counting” by Doris Schroeder, 118-125.
• “Human Rights and Genetic Technologies” by D. Micah Hester and Alissa Swota, 126-127.
• “Human Rights and American Bioethics: Resistance is Futile” by George J. Annas, 133-141.

JAMA (Vol. 302; No. 24; December 23, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Medical Care for the Final Years of Life: ‘When You’re 83, It’s Not Going to be 20 Years’” by David B. Reuben, 2686-2694.
• “Improving the Delivery of Preventative Services to Medicare Beneficiaries” by Leonard I. Lesser and Andrew W. Bazemore, 2699-2700.
• “Clinical Care in the Aging Century- Announcing ‘Care of the Aging Patient: From Evidence to Action” by C. Seth Landefeld, Margaret A. Winker, and Bruce Chernof; 2703-2704.
• “Efficacy Data and HPV Vaccination Studies” by Norman W. Baylor and Melinda Wharton, 2658-2659.
• “Marketing and the HPV Vaccine” by L. Stewart Massad, 2660.
• “Scientists Target Cocaine Addiction” by Bridget M. Kuehn, 2641-2642.

JAMA (Volume 302; Number 23; December 16, 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Health Insurance Cooperatives: Lessons from the Great Depression” by Michael R. Grey, 2587-2588.
• “The Global Breast Cancer Disparity: Strategies for Bridging the Gap” by Jonas A. Souza and José Bines, 2589-2590.
• “Mentoring: What’s In a Name?” by Dario Sambunjak and Ana Marusic, 2591-2592.
• “Late-Life Dementias: Does This Unyielding Global Challenge Require a Broader View?” by Thomas J. Montine and Eric B. Larson, 2593-2594.
• “Gene Therapy Repair of Donor Lungs Improves Outlook for Transplantation” by M.J. Friedrich, 2530.
• “Cord Blood Transplants” by Joan Stephenson, 2531.

U.S. House leaders signaled Tuesday they are willing to agree to a final health overhaul bill without a government-run health insurance option if other parts of the bill would fulfill the same goals. (Wall Street Journal)

For Jeanne d’Arc Kayembe, the trip to Washington in May 2007 was meant to be a month-long respite from an abusive boyfriend and a chance to visit relatives before going home to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to have her first child.

But searing abdominal pains sent Kayembe, who was six months pregnant, to Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. After relieving her pain, a doctor told her to stay in bed and not return to Kinshasa until after she had delivered her baby. (Washington Post)

Dialog (Volume 48, Issue 4, Winter 2009) is now available by subscription only.

Articles include:

• “Healthcare is about Bodies and Bodyselves” by Phillip Hefner, 309-311.