Alzheimer's patients with non-spousal caregivers are less likely to participate in clinical trials
People with Alzheimer's disease are less likely to participate in a clinical trial if they have non-spouse caregivers, according to a study by a team of researchers including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Report recommends France legalise 'accelerated deaths'
France should allow doctors to "accelerate the coming of death" for terminally ill patients, a report to President Francois Hollande recommended Tuesday.
Health
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Grateful patient philanthropy and the doctor-patient relationship
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 ...
Other
Dec 10, 2012 |
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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 |
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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 |
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'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 |
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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 |
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ACP and SGIM find the PCMH model aligns with principles of medical ethics and professionalism
The American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) explore the ethical dimensions of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in a new position paper published by the Journal of General ...
Health
Jul 30, 2012 |
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Blood vessel forming potential of stem cells from human placenta and umbilical cord blood
A study comparing whether endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) derived from human placenta or those derived from human umbilical cord blood are more proliferative and better for forming new blood vessels has found that ...
Medical research
Jul 19, 2012 |
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Penn expert addresses ethical implications of testing for Alzheimer's disease risk
Diagnostic tests are increasingly capable of identifying plaques and tangles present in Alzheimer's disease, yet the disease remains untreatable. Questions remain about how these tests can be used in research studies examining ...
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Jul 17, 2012 |
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Proposed testosterone testing of some female olympians challenged by scientists
Proposed Olympic policies for testing the testosterone levels of select female athletes could discriminate against women who may not meet traditional notions of femininity and distort the scientific evidence on the relationship ...
Other
Jun 13, 2012 |
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Ethics framework urged to manage conflicts of interest in medicine
A recent international study led by researchers from McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) examines the complex and controversial interplay of conflicts of interest between physician experts, medicine ...
Other
Jun 13, 2012 |
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Who pays for personalized medicine?
While researchers are busy identifying new biomarkers to detect disease and tailor treatments to individual needs, legal battles have been waged all the way up to the Supreme Court, trying to sort out whether a private company ...
Health
May 24, 2012 |
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Any UK law on cycle helmets should apply only to kids
Any law to make the wearing of cycle helmets mandatory in the UK should apply only to children, because the evidence that cycle helmets significantly protect adults against serious head injury is equivocal, conclude researchers ...
Health
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Sex-changing treatment for kids: It's on the rise
(AP) -- A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according ...
Health
Feb 20, 2012 |
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