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IRBs often struggle with determining risks of social and behavioral research studies. Its easy to be both too cautious and too complacent.
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Health care providers frequently have misconceptions about legal requirements of end-of-life care. By educating providers about how to make decisions when people lose capacity, fewer formal ethics or legal consults will be needed.
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The Affordable Care Act invested significantly in comparative effectiveness research (CER), but at the same time, states that no decisions coming out of CER should determine what treatments are covered by insurers, notes Norman Daniels, PhD, professor of ethics and population health at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA.
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While the vast majority of gamete donations are made anonymously, a growing number of countries are enacting laws allowing children access to identifying information about their gamete donor.
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This article originally appeared in the April 2014 issue of Neurology Alert.
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This article originally appeared in the April 2014 issue of Critical Care Alert.
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This article originally appeared in the April 2014 issue of Critical Care Alert.
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In a patient presenting with leg symptoms, however non-specific, it is appropriate that a physician consider the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT), as failure to make this diagnosis can have life-threatening consequences (e.g., pulmonary embolism).