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Up to 20% of Patients Excluded From Transplant Due to Lack of Social Support
Social support is one of the factors providers use to determine whether a patient is a candidate for transplant. Recent research suggests this longstanding practice is ethically problematic and should be reconsidered.
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Case-Based Approach to Ethics Education: Consistency Is Goal
Ethicists have another resource to turn to for challenging dilemmas: A Case-Based Study Guide for Addressing Patient-Centered Ethical Issues in Health Care.
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Surprising Ethics Knowledge Gaps in Emergency Medicine Residents
Gaps in clinical ethics knowledge appear prevalent among emergency medicine trainees, and few programs feature dedicated ethics modules, found a recent study.
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Too Few Ethics Consults for Children With Chronic Critical Illness: Less Than 1%
Very few hospitalized children with chronic critical illness get ethics or palliative care consultations, found a recent study.
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Geneticist: Rogue Scientist’s Gene-Editing Procedure Violated Bedrock Ethical Principles
A Chinese scientist’s recent announcement of a genome-editing procedure performed to protect children from HIV has significant implications for the bioethics and genomics fields.
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New Drugs Needed for Bad Bugs
To stem the tide of antibiotic-resistant pathogens, the FDA will provide more incentives and market opportunities in 2019 as part of a five-year plan to get the pharmaceutical industry involved in restoring the dwindling drug pipeline. -
Devil in the Details in CDC Infection Control Draft
The CDC has issued draft guidelines for preventing infections in healthcare workers, urging collaboration between infection preventionists and employee health professionals. -
APIC, CDC Develop Infection Cards
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has teamed up with the CDC to create “quick assessment” cards with infection prevention tips on various patient populations or care environments.
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Will Paralytic Syndrome Fade With Fall?
As the fall 2018 viral season ended, there was hope that the national outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in children would follow historic patterns and fade out as well. -
CDC Debunks Flu Shot/Pregnancy Misinformation
Fighting off another flu vaccine falsehood, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it is not recommending that pregnant women get their doctors’ approval before they “get vaccinated at a worksite clinic, pharmacy, or other location outside of their physician’s office.”