News tagged with ethics
Researchers produce a catalog of the deleterious and disease-causing genetic variants in healthy people
Researchers at Cambridge and Cardiff have found that, on average, a normal healthy person carries approximately 400 potentially damaging DNA variants and two variants known to be associated directly with disease traits. They ...
Genetics
Dec 06, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
|
Rewarding people to live healthier lives is acceptable if it works, study reveals
(Medical Xpress)—A UK study reveals that the public find it acceptable to reward people for changing their health-related behaviour, such as smoking or weight loss, as long as it works. In the past, such ...
Health
Dec 04, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
New study gives insight into subtle genomic differences among our own cells
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have demonstrated, in a study conducted jointly with researchers at Yale University, that induced-pluripotent stem cells—the embryonic-stem-cell lookalikes whose discovery ...
Medical research
Nov 18, 2012 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
|
Healthcare ethics consultants share lessons learned
Healthcare ethics consultants are called upon in the most difficult of times; where do they turn for advice? The American Society For Bioethics and Humanities' Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee (CECA) is taking ...
Other
Nov 05, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Clinical trials: Around half of new treatments perform better than existing treatments
On average, new treatments perform better in clinical trials only slightly more often than existing treatments, according to a new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library. The fact that experimental treatments are no ...
Medical research
Oct 16, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Programs for treating addiction in doctors pose ethical issues
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 ...
Addiction
Oct 15, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Bioethics panel urges more gene privacy protection
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.
Genetics
Oct 11, 2012 |
not rated yet |
1
Children underrepresented in drug studies, researchers say
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.
Pediatrics
Oct 01, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Gut reaction: Morality in food choice
We've all heard the saying, "you are what you eat." It turns out the old adage might be true on more than just a physical level. The food you choose may also reflect your personal ethics.
Health
Sep 26, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Duke policy provides ethical foundation for managing drug shortages
Hospitals and health systems faced with ongoing shortages of key drugs for cancer and other diseases should develop firm rationing policies based on transparency and fairness, researchers at Duke University Medical Center ...
Medications
Sep 24, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
'Queer Bioethics': The birth of a new academic discipline
It's not every day that a new academic discipline is born. But that's exactly what happened in 2010, when the Project on Bioethics, Sexuality and Gender Identity — or "Queer Bioethics," for short—came to li ...
Other
Sep 21, 2012 |
not rated yet |
0
Doctors who perform abortions are compelled by conscience, just like those who refuse
Exercising conscience in healthcare is usually defined as refusing to provide contested services, like abortion. But in an article to be published Sept. 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine, a University of Michigan facult ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Sep 13, 2012 |
5 / 5 (1) |
1
Study: We lie when we're short on time or feel justified to do so
(Medical Xpress)—Almost all of us have been tempted to lie at some point, whether about our GPA, our annual income, or our age. But what makes us actually do it?
Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 05, 2012 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Deeply held religious beliefs prompting sick kids to be given 'futile' treatment
Parental hopes of a "miraculous intervention," prompted by deeply held religious beliefs, are leading to very sick children being subjected to futile care and needless suffering, suggests a small study in the Journal of Me ...
Health
Aug 13, 2012 |
4 / 5 (2) |
9
Zurich children's hospital lifts ban on circumcision
A Swiss hospital announced Friday that it has lifted a moratorium on religiously-motivated circumcisions imposed in July in the wake of a court ruling in neighbouring Germany.
Other
Aug 10, 2012 |
1 / 5 (3) |
2
