November 12, 2014
(BBC) – Hundreds of health workers involved in treating Ebola patients have gone on strike at a clinic in Sierra Leone. The staff are protesting about the government’s failure to pay an agreed weekly $100 (£63) “hazard payment”. A few … Read More
November 12, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – A University of Queensland study has found nurses play a crucial role in decisions surrounding treatment of terminally ill patients. UQ School of Social Science Associate Professor Alex Broom said dying patients who were told further treatment … Read More
November 11, 2014
(Scientific American) – For six weeks this past summer pregnant women in a large swath of eastern Sierra Leone were unable to find a single person to perform caesarean sections. Ebola was to blame. The deadly virus, which kills about … Read More
November 7, 2014
(Medscape) – Although patients with advanced, treatment-resistant cancer rarely benefit from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), admitting resident physicians in the United States are unlikely to share with the patient that poor prognosis, according to results of a national survey presented here … Read More
November 6, 2014
(New York Times) – As the number of people sickened with Ebola soared this summer, American and Liberian officials faced a new challenge: How could they encourage international medical workers, understandably frightened about the risks, to come help fight the … Read More
November 5, 2014
(CNN) – A Spanish nurse’s assistant who left the hospital Wednesday after beating Ebola said she was still weak but gave thanks to God and the health workers who cared for her that she was still alive. Looking frail but … Read More
November 4, 2014
(NPR) – Similar scenes play out with cruel regularity in West Africa as family members caring for loved ones suffering from Ebola weigh self-preservation against the basic human desire to touch and hold a loved one in mutual comfort and … Read More
November 3, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) – U.S. hospitals are grappling with whether to withhold aggressive treatments from Ebola patients to avoid further exposing doctors and nurses to the virus. Some facilities have decided they will forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or may opt … Read More
November 3, 2014
(Reuters) – Police threats against patients and medics they accuse of giving “illegal abortions”, coupled with reversals in Kenyan policies, are stirring fears likely to reduce access to safe abortions, campaigners said. Doctors and nurses say police intimidation has increased … Read More
October 31, 2014
(BBC) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said discrimination against aid workers who return home from the Ebola crisis in West Africa is “unacceptable”. Strict quarantine rules are hampering aid efforts when more health workers are needed in order to … Read More
October 29, 2014
Hastings Center Report (Vol. 44, No. 5, September-October 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Surgeons, intensivists, and discretion to refuse requested treatments” by Mark R. Wicclair and Douglas B. White “Pregnancy is not a disease” by Daniel Brudney … Read More
October 28, 2014
(CNN) – A nurse who was quarantined at a hospital in New Jersey after returning from West Africa was released Monday, her attorney said. Kaci Hickox, who told CNN the quarantine was violating her rights, was discharged after testing negative … Read More
October 28, 2014
(Dallas Morning News) – Kaci Hickox, a nurse with degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington and the Johns Hopkins University, has been caring for Ebola patients while on assignment with Doctors Without Borders in Sierra Leone. Upon her … Read More
October 24, 2014
Nursing Philosophy (Volume 15, Issue 4, October 2014) is now available online by subscription only. Articles Include: “Implications for 21st century science for nursing care: interpretations and care” by Michael T. Yeo “Cognition and the compassion deficit: the social psychology of … Read More
October 23, 2014
(ABC News) – A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola from Liberian national Thomas Duncan is virus-free, her mother told ABC News in a statement. Amber Vinson became the second person to contract Ebola in the United States after she treated … Read More
October 22, 2014
(New York Times) – The Ebola crisis has prompted a leading medical ethicist to raise an uncomfortable end-of-life question that doctors may have to address sooner than they would like: Should a medical team try to resuscitate an Ebola patient … Read More
October 21, 2014
(ABC News) – Federal health officials on Monday issued new guidelines to promote head-to-toe protection for health workers treating Ebola patients. Officials have been scrambling to come up with new advice for protective gear since two Dallas nurses became infected … Read More
October 20, 2014
(The Atlantic) – A recent crop of books offers a fascinating and disturbing ethnography of the opaque land of medicine, told by participant-observers wearing lab coats. What’s going on is more dysfunctional than I imagined in my worst moments. Although … Read More
October 17, 2014
(New York Times) – In his first two weeks in Liberia at a new clinic run by the charity International Medical Corps, Dr. Hatch has learned the ways of the Ebola ward. Much of West Africa is following a no-hands … Read More
October 16, 2014
(Washington Post) – Nina Pham, one of two nurses infected with the Ebola virus while caring for a patient in Dallas, will be transferred to a National Institutes of Health clinical center in Bethesda, officials and the NIH said Thursday. … Read More
October 15, 2014
(Dallas Morning News) – Health care workers treating Thomas Eric Duncan in a hospital isolation unit didn’t wear protective hazardous-material suits for two days until tests confirmed the Liberian man had Ebola — a delay that potentially exposed perhaps dozens … Read More
October 15, 2014
(New York Times) – The second Dallas health care worker to test positive for Ebola took a flight on Monday from Cleveland to the Dallas area the day before she reported symptoms of the disease, federal health officials said Wednesday. … Read More
October 14, 2014
(ABC News) – A Texas nurse who became infected with Ebola while treating the first patient diagnosed in the U.S. said Tuesday that she was “doing well,” while the World Health Organization projected that West Africa could see up to … Read More
October 13, 2014
(Dallas Morning News) – The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas nurse who is the first person to contract Ebola in the U.S. has been identified as Nina Pham. Friends of the family confirmed that the 26-year-old is the Ebola patient. … Read More
October 10, 2014
(Medical Xpress) – Online learning interventions and small group debriefings can improve medical residents’ attitudes and communication skills toward patients with substance use disorders, and may result in improved care for these patients, according to a new study from the … Read More
