January 17, 2025
(New York Times) – Prisons across the country are struggling to find nursing home placements for sick prisoners after granting them parole. In New York, some inmates are suing for release. Complex and costly medical conditions require more nursing care, … Read More
January 13, 2025
(New York Times) – A provocative large study published last year in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that at least one-fourth of people who appear unresponsive actually are conscious enough to understand language. As a doctor who sometimes … Read More
January 9, 2025
(National Catholic Register) – Police attempted to force doctors to perform the search, threatening arrest and obstruction of justice if they failed to do so. A lawsuit filed in federal court claims that officials in an Ohio city retaliated against … Read More
December 30, 2024
(New York Times) – In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world. Jimmy Carter’s five decades of leadership in global health brought a … Read More
December 30, 2024
(CNN) – Since taking power in 2012, Xi has launched a sweeping campaign against graft and disloyalty, taking down corrupt officials as well as political rivals at an unprecedented speed and scale as he consolidated control over the party and … Read More
December 24, 2024
(NPR) – Young caregivers have always been there, doing all the same things that adults do — helping people get dressed, charting symptoms and medicines, dealing with doctors and bills. About one-quarter of all family caregivers are between 18 and … Read More
December 20, 2024
(National Post) – A new report from Health Canada confirms that more than 60,000 lives have been lost to “medical assistance in dying” in Canada between 2016 and 2023. Euthanasia was supposed be the exception to the rule, but Canada … Read More
December 18, 2024
(NPR) – What happened to Gomez is common enough that some have coined a term for it: “cancer ghosting.” This social isolation and loss of support – even from close friends and family members – is a devastating and often … Read More
December 16, 2024
(KFF Health News) – Hawley’s local Indian Health Service hospital wasn’t equipped to deliver babies. But she said staff there agreed that the agency would pay for her care at a privately owned hospital more than an hour away. That … Read More
December 4, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – The chief executive of UnitedHealth’s insurance arm was fatally shot outside a hotel in New York City Wednesday in a targeted attack, police said. A manhunt is under way for a suspect who was lying in … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Nature) – By changing how contracts are done, institutions can move away from exploitative research practices. Historically, the people and institutions that carry out research related to Indigenous peoples have assumed that they own those data — they can share … Read More
November 27, 2024
(Associated Press) – The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides. … Read More
November 22, 2024
(Wired) – Amnesty International has issued a report charting the supply chains and human rights due diligence policies of 13 major EV manufacturers. The results are a world away from the clean, safe future that electric vehicles promise. The race … Read More
November 18, 2024
(NBC News) – The University of North Texas Health Science Center turned to alkaline hydrolysis to save money on cremations of human remains, budget documents show. State regulators have ordered a Texas medical school to immediately halt its practice of … Read More
November 5, 2024
(Tech Crunch) – Nodal is a marketplace for prospective parents to get matched with vetted surrogates. Nodal founder and CEO Dr. Brian Levine told TechCrunch that his company wants to fix the industry’s supply-and-demand problems. Nodal takes the same technology-driven … Read More
November 1, 2024
(Associated Press) – Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash … Read More
October 31, 2024
(Science) – Revised Declaration of Helsinki stresses need for equity, protection of vulnerable groups, and research integrity The Declaration of Helsinki—a foundational text that outlines international ethical principles for medical research—has undergone one of the most extensive revisions since it … Read More
October 25, 2024
(Associated Press) – Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are cracking down on a troubling spread of child sexual abuse imagery created through artificial intelligence technology — from manipulated photos of real children to graphic depictions of computer-generated kids. Justice … Read More
October 24, 2024
(Associated Press) – Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is trying to release the elephants from what they say … Read More
October 23, 2024
(STAT News) – New research calls into question the high-profile conclusion of the first major study to show that the race of physicians influences health outcomes. In August of 2020, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies … Read More
October 23, 2024
Nursing Ethics (vol. 31, no. 7, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
October 22, 2024
(New York Times) – The patient gown (as opposed to the surgical gowns worn by hospital personnel) was essentially designed to be the most efficient way to give patients a modicum of physical privacy while allowing doctors and nurses ease … Read More
October 21, 2024
(Aeon) – While Chalmers’s p-zombie is a part of a philosophical hypothetical concerned with the nature of mind and consciousness, the non-philosophical take on people as NPCs is deeply morally worrying. Having taught and written for a number of years … Read More
October 2, 2024
(NBC News) – To help families find answers, NBC News is publishing the names of more than 1,800 people whose unclaimed bodies were given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center, according to county records. These survivors said … Read More
September 27, 2024
(NBC News) – Black and Latino people use 10% to 40% fewer prescription drugs because of high costs, according to a report by Patients for Affordable Drugs. Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people … Read More
