September 17, 2021
(New York Times) – How often do older Americans fall victim to drug diversion, in which someone steals or tampers with prescription medications, particularly opioids, for personal use or for sale? Researchers and advocates trying to protect seniors from abuse … Read More
September 17, 2021
(Medscape) – Older adults in the United States — particularly among Black and Latino/Hispanic populations — experienced worse access to healthcare for chronic conditions during the pandemic than older adults in 10 other wealthy countries, according to findings from The … Read More
September 16, 2021
Hastings Center Report (vol. 51, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body” by Mary Jean Walker “Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid?19” … Read More
September 14, 2021
Nursing Ethics (vol. 28, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Ethical Dilemmas, Perceived Risk, and Motivation among Nurses during the COVID-19 Pandemic” by Daniel Sperling “Self-Care Strategies in Response to Nurses’ Moral Injury during COVID-19 … Read More
September 9, 2021
(UPI) – Nearly 69,000 additional COVID-19 cases and 17,000 more deaths occured at nursing homes in the United States in 2020 than were reported, an analysis published Thursday by JAMA Network Open found. This means that at least 40% of … Read More
September 8, 2021
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Health Data Research on Sudden Cardiac Arrest: Perspectives of Survivors and Their Next-of-Kin” by Marieke A. R. Bak, et al. “Grounds for Surrogate Decision-Making in Japanese Clinical Practice: A Qualitative … Read More
September 1, 2021
(Medscape) – Although COVID-19 vaccines are less effective against the Delta variant, they’re still extremely effective in preventing hospitalization, according to data presented Monday to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Since the Delta variant has become the dominant … Read More
August 18, 2021
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 29, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Death and Irreversibility” by Nada Gligorov “Pediatric Brain Tumors: Narrating Suffering and End-of-Life Decisionmaking” by Marije Brouwer, et al. “The Neonatal Intensive … Read More
August 17, 2021
(The Guardian) – Erickson, 93, remembers the day her ElliQ device arrived. It was strange at first hearing a metallic voice ask how she was or if she wanted to know an interesting fact or the weather, but she got … Read More
August 16, 2021
(Knowable Magazine) – Polypharmacy, often defined as the regular use of five or more drugs by one patient, is on the rise and is expected to grow as life expectancy increases and the global population ages. Elderly people not only … Read More
