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Prince Lawsuit Shows Risks of ‘Star Treatment’ for Celebrity Patients
Celebrity status can lead healthcare providers to change the standard of care, often unwittingly.
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Barriers Exist to Family-centered ICU Care
New guidelines from the Society of Critical Care Medicine emphasize the benefits of family-centered care in the ICU.
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Study: Effects of Early Palliative Care Differ by Age, Gender
The effects of early palliative care differ depending on patients’ age and gender, found a recent study.
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Views on Disclosure of Donor-assisted Conception Are Evolving
Should parents inform their children that they were conceived by gamete or embryo donation? A position statement from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine examines the ethics of this issue.
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Physicians’ Mental Health ‘Finally Getting the Attention It Deserves’
Physician well-being is increasingly being recognized as an ethical issue, but mental health stigma remains an obstacle.
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Many Providers Say Spiritual Needs Should Be Assessed, But Few Do So
Should health professionals take a screening spiritual history of their patients? Most clinicians agreed they should, a recent survey found.
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Diabetic Retinopathy, Associated Comorbidities, and Treatment Considerations
Diabetic retinopathy is a complex disorder of the microvascular and neuronal structure of the retina. Although poorly understood, the problem does not start in the retina, but rather begins through systemic metabolic dysfunction, which causes damage to retina vessels. This article will review the structure of the retina, the systemic pathophysiology of diabetes, the resulting damage to retinal structure and function, comorbidities, traditional treatments, and prevention and treatment for diabetic retinopathy and its comorbidities.
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Novel Approaches to Justify Ethics Resources: Value Goes Beyond ROI
Ethics services often find it challenging to demonstrate financial impact on the organization due to lack of data and the preventive nature of many interventions.
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Anti-MAG Antibodies: Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects
Anti-MAG antibody-associated neuropathy may present as many disorders, including small fiber neuropathy, sensorimotor neuropathy, Guillain-Barré-like syndrome, and multifocal motor neuropathy. Rituximab appears to be the best therapeutic option.
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Longitudinal tau PET as an Outcome Measure for Clinical Trials
tau PET imaging shows progression of brain Alzheimer’s pathology over time and correlates with cognitive impairment better than amyloid PET. In future clinical trials, tau PET can serve as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease progression.