http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In the United States alone, an estimated 100,000 patients per year receive implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) – devices that detect life-threatening heart rhythm irregularities and deliver a high-voltage shock to return the heart to a normal pace. Despite their lifesaving purpose, many patients and clinicians will ultimately be faced with difficult decisions about deactivation of these devices as patients age and develop other conditions that may prove terminal. Little is understood about physicians' views surrounding the ethical aspects of ICD deactivation in end-of-life situations, especially as it relates to other medical interventions and patient and family directives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-health-perspectives-icd-deactivation-end-of-life.html Other Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:26:33 EST news282295567 A national shortage of critical care physicians and beds means difficult decisions for healthcare professionals: how to determine which of the sickest patients are most in need of access to the intensive care unit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-electronic-health-patients-icu-resources.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:41:22 EST news278851262 In one of the first studies to look at transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in real-world clinical practice settings, researchers at Butler Hospital, along with colleagues across the U.S., confirmed that TMS is an effective treatment for patients with depression who are unable to find symptom relief through antidepressant medications. The study findings are published online in the June 11, 2012 edition of Depression and Anxiety in the Wiley Online Library. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-efficacy-transcranial-magnetic-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:14:39 EST news262537986 What do employees think of their boss when he or she makes a mistake? According to a new study, leaders who make mistakes are seen as less competent, less desirable to work for and less effective than leaders who do not. And if the leader is a man making a mistake in a man's world, he is judged more harshly than a woman making the same mistake in a man's world. The work by Christian Thoroughgood, from the Pennsylvania State University in the US, and his colleagues, is published online in Springer's Journal of Business and Psychology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-male-bosses-errors.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 23 May 2012 13:19:37 EST news256997903 Parents of children in the palliative stage of cancer favour aggressive chemotherapy over supportive care compared with health care professionals, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pediatric-cancer-palliative-parental-health-care.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:42:25 EST news238074136 Oncologists and their patients are increasingly challenged with making difficult decisions about screening, prevention and treatment. Unfortunately, most patients are neither armed with adequate knowledge nor the means of interpreting the information they do have in a qualitatively and quantitatively useful way. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cancer-patients.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:58:31 EST news235670052