http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Doctors at Yale School of Medicine and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) have called upon their fellow physicians to limit or end the practice of prescribing memory-enhancing drugs to healthy children whose brains are still developing. Their position statement is published in the March 13 online issue of the journal Neurology, the medical journal of the AAN. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-attention-boosting-drugs-healthy-kids-doctors.html Neuroscience Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:00:05 EST news282404909 (HealthDay)—Given the risks of multifetal pregnancies, especially high-order multifetal pregnancies, physicians should be aware of the relevant ethical issues in order to support their patients as they make decisions regarding multifetal pregnancy reduction, according to a Committee Opinion published in the February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-discusses-ethics-multifetal-pregnancy-reduction.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:54:24 EST news278272458 Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say cells from the amniotic membrane part of the placenta normally discarded after a woman gives birth could one day be a source for human eggs. The first-of-its-kind discovery was published online last month in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology (2012, 10:108). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-amniotic-sac-membrane-source-human.html Medical research Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:26:57 EST news277115209 India's Supreme Court said Thursday that unregulated clinical trials of new drugs were causing "havoc" in the country as it ordered the health ministry to monitor any new applications for tests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drug-trials-india-havoc-human.html Medications Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:45:45 EST news276414338 Physicians associated with "patient philanthropy" – financial donations from grateful patients to a medical institution – are concerned with how these contributions might affect their own behavior and attitudes, and how they might impact the doctor-patient relationship. A new study by Scott Wright, MD and Joseph A. Carrese, MD, MPH of Johns Hopkins University, and colleagues, explores this topic. The paper considers the perspectives of internal medicine physicians working in an academic medical center who have had experiences with these situations. Their findings appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-patient-philanthropy-doctor-patient-relationship.html Other Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:04:53 EST news274381458 State physician health programs (PHPs) play a key role in helping doctors with substance abuse problems. But the current PHP system is inconsistent and prone to potential conflicts of interest and ethical issues, according to a review available as publish ahead of print content from the December 2012 issue of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-addiction-doctors-pose-ethical-issues.html Addiction Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:02:44 EST news269517756 It sounds like a scene from a TV show: Someone sends a discarded coffee cup to a laboratory where the unwitting drinker's DNA is decoded, predicting what diseases lurk in his or her future. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bioethics-panel-urges-gene-privacy.html Genetics Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:53:16 EST news269153587 The number of clinical trials enrolling children is far lower than for adults, and the scope of research is also narrower, according to an analysis of public-access data conducted by researchers at Duke University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-children-underrepresented-drug.html Pediatrics Mon, 01 Oct 2012 03:30:30 EST news268281021 (AP) -- The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-panel-debates-bioterrorism-children.html Other Thu, 17 May 2012 16:10:41 EST news256489835 The United States military and intelligence communities have developed a close relationship with the scientific establishment. In particular, they fund and utilize an array of neuroscience applications, generating profound ethical issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-ethical-considerations-military-funded-neuroscience.html Other Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:00:13 EST news251480970 Today the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues posted on its website, www.bioethics.gov, hundreds of supporting documents related to its investigation into the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s. The documents include a spreadsheet that Commission staff painstakingly created to document the research subjects in Guatemala. In addition, the Commission has posted a Spanish translation of its report, "Ethically Impossible" STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bioethics-commission-additional-documents-historical.html Other Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:57:38 EST news249220652 A process that prompts a single gene to generate millions of supercharged stem cells, which can then turn into any kind of cell a body needs to repair itself, has been patented at the University of Central Florida. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ucf-patented-pluripotent-stem-cells.html Medical research Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:06:45 EST news243777827 For the first time, a new research methodology recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used to demonstrate that converting patients from one anti-epileptic drug to another - in this case, lamotrigine extended-release (LTG XR) - is well-tolerated, effective and safe. The work by Jacqueline French and her team, from New York University in the US, illustrates how the new methodology addresses ethical issues inherent in more traditional study designs. It is published online in Springer's journal, Neurotherapeutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ethical-epilepsy-treatments.html Neuroscience Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:19:48 EST news242313386 (Medical Xpress) -- New technology and innovations in genetic sequencing are dramatically changing the field of prenatal diagnosis and testing. Peter Benn, professor and director of the Diagnostic Human Genetics Laboratories at the Health Center, is at the forefront of researching and monitoring those changes and is known as an international expert on the topic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-prenatal-screening-easier-ethical-issues.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:27:30 EST news239966836 New research shows people with dementia who have a stroke are more likely to become disabled and not return home compared to people who didn't have dementia at the time they had a stroke. The study is published in the November 1, 2011, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-people-dementia-home.html Neuroscience Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:00:01 EST news239289179 Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-anthrax-vaccine-children-.html Medications Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:18:27 EST news239084294