March 26, 2010
THOUSANDS of NHS staff not directly involved in the treatment of patients have access to confidential records in Scotland, a report claims today. Research by Big Brother Watch, a campaign by the TaxPayers’ Alliance , asked health authorities across the … Read More
March 25, 2010
New study sets the stage for debate over the use of popular programs to prompt classroom discussions among medical and nursing students. (EurekAlert)
March 25, 2010
When the common good takes a back seat to political and corporate interests, all, especially the vulnerable, are at risk. As the largest provider of non-governmental, non-profit health care in this country, the Catholic Church, and those who work as … Read More
March 25, 2010
The Canadian ban against women selling their eggs as a source of eggs for fertility treatments is reported to be systemically flawed in practice, according to an expose article published in the April 2010 edition of the Canadian magazine The … Read More
March 25, 2010
Newborn twins Sarah Estelle and Anna Isabelle McLaughlin lay in bassinets beside their mom at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center. (Sentinel Source)
March 24, 2010
Medical ethics experts have stood by a terminally ill patient’s wish to starve herself to death, saying a doctor’s task is to prevent suffering and not death. Margaret Page, 60, who has been living in Wellington’s St John of God … Read More
March 24, 2010
Representatives of patients, doctors, hospitals and religious groups yesterday urged an early approval of a revised bill to the current organ donation law, which has been pending at the Assembly for over one year. (The Korea Herald)
March 24, 2010
Since the founding of their church 131 years ago, Christian Scientists have been taught to avoid doctors at all cost. It is a conviction rooted so deeply in church dogma that dozens of members have endured criminal prosecution rather than … Read More
March 24, 2010
The provision of health care service in resource-poor settings is associated with a broad set of ethical issues. Devakumar’s case discusses the ethical issues related to the inability to treat in a cholera clinic patients who do not have cholera. … Read More
March 24, 2010
In a letter to the editor of the Washington Post about a recent article on embryonic stem cell research, NIH Director Francis Collins writes that he is “concerned that readers might come away … confused about what is happening” at … Read More
March 23, 2010
A major objective of the technoprogressive agenda is to close the gap between popular presentations of transhumanism and the mainstream of social/political thought. In order to effect a significant influence on public policies related to human enhancement technologies and other … Read More
March 23, 2010
Patient centeredness has become a desideratum of health care reform. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) named it as one of its 6 core attributes of a high-quality health care system. The Commonwealth Fund’s Commission on a High Performance Health System, … Read More
March 23, 2010
Dr. Howard W. Jones Jr., the surgeon who, along with his wife, Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, helped to create the first test tube baby born in the United States, turned 99 in December. He is still opinionated, humble and charming, … Read More
March 23, 2010
Making plans for what we would like done in the case of a life-threatening health care crisis is not something most people wish to think about. Often, people take the “Scarlett O’Hara†approach and say, “I’ll think about that tomorrow.†… Read More
March 23, 2010
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Volume 19, Issue 02, April 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Introduction to Philosophical Issues in Neuroethics” by Tuija Takala, 161-163. “Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness: A Case Study” by Matthew R. … Read More
March 23, 2010
Ageing and Society (Volume 30, Issue 3, April 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “The Sensitivity of United Kingdom Health-Care Services to the Diverse Needs of Chinese-origin Older People” by Ruby C. M. Chau and Sam Wai-Kam … Read More
March 23, 2010
Conference: Disability, Health Care & Ethics – What Really Matters Wednesday April 28, 2010 10:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Baltimore, MD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) This conference is targeted to individuals who wish to broaden their understanding of … Read More
March 23, 2010
Disability and Ethics Through the Life Cycle: Cases, Controversies and Finding Common Ground May 21-22, 2010 Union College in Schenectady, NY The conference is hosted by the Albany Law School, Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Program of Union College, and … Read More
March 22, 2010
EACME Annual Meeting 2010: “Empirical Ethics” September 16-18, 2010 Oslo, Norway The Section for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, and the European Association of Centres of Medical Ethics (EACME) will organize the EACME annual conference. The four central topics include: … Read More
March 22, 2010
Event: Priorities 2010 Biennial Meeting of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care April 23, 25 in Boston, MA The International Society on Priorities in Health Care invites participants to its next conference on April 23-25 in Boston. This … Read More
March 22, 2010
New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 362; No. 10; March 11, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Can the States Nullify Health Care Reform?” by T.S. Jost, 869-871.
March 22, 2010
JAMA (Vol. 303; No. 10; March 10, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Charting a Path from Comparative Effectiveness Funding to Improved Patient-Centered Health Care” by Patrick H. Conway and Carolyn Clancy, 985-986.
March 22, 2010
Archives of Internal Medicine (Vol. 170; No. 5; March 8, 2010) is now available by subscription only. Articles include: “Metrics for Evaluating the Utility of Patient-centered Decision Tools” by Daria B. Crittenden and Nirav R. Shah, 496.
March 22, 2010
U.S. researchers have developed tiny nanoparticle robots that can travel through a patient’s blood and into tumors where they deliver a therapy that turns off an important cancer gene. (Reuters)
March 22, 2010
As spiraling health care costs increase and public debate over health care collide in the headlines, it’s time to question the value that Americans have received for their tax dollar investment in some medical research. Specifically, how are health dollars … Read More
