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Parents, IRBs Hold Different Views on Phase I Pediatric Oncology Trials
IRB members are more likely than the public to think the risks outweigh the potential medical benefits. Parents think about the possibility of caring for a child with severe cancer and no treatment alternatives. IRBs ensure trials are ethical and that pediatric subjects are not exposed to excessive risk.
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Pain Researchers Are Engaging Patients as Partners
Pain researchers would benefit by enacting a comprehensive approach to patient engagement, perhaps engaging people with lived experience of chronic pain in developing study recruitment materials.
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Clinicians Must Remain Cautious When Using Social Media
Many clinicians see their social media presence as distinct from their clinical role. While this is somewhat true, it is important to remember once something is put online, one cannot control who sees it or how it is interpreted.
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Wearable Tech in Clinical Research Trials
Researchers are partnering with companies to facilitate clinical research trials that call for patients to use wearable tech, which raises multiple ethical concerns.
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Ethics Plays Important Role in Response to Abortion Ruling
As healthcare professionals process the clinical, legal, and even personal implications of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow states to restrict abortion access or ban it entirely, ethicists play an important role.
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Telehealth Expands Contraceptive Access, but Some Youth Just Want Face-to-Face Care
A research review involving telemedicine-delivered contraceptive health services to female adolescents and young adults revealed that youth find these acceptable, but some reported a preference for in-person care.
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Cardiac Xenotransplantation Could Fill the Organ Donor Gap, But Is It Ethical?
There are not enough organs for heart failure patients who need them, and cardiac xenotransplantation is one potential, albeit controversial, solution.
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Mobile Health Technology’s Effects on Contraceptive Use Remain Unproven
Mobile health (mHealth) technology and interventions have been proven to affect behavior change in the areas of obesity and smoking, but their effect on contraception behavior remains unproven, according to recent research. Using mHealth in reproductive healthcare has helped increase patients’ knowledge of contraception methods, but there was no conclusive research on whether the interventions could change behavior.
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Health Coaching Can Encourage Contraceptive Continuation
If the goal is to promote contraceptive continuation, health coaching tactics could be the answer, according to a recent study. Other behavior change tactics include motivational interviewing and healthcare navigation interventions, which are designed to activate an individual’s intrinsic desire to make a behavior change.
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Black Women Often Have Fewer Reproductive Health Options
For Black women, the concept of reproductive choice is a privilege they often lack, according to research on abortion in the context of structural racism and reproductive injustice.