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Medical Providers’ Views Vary on Refusals of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Ethicists can help determine how best to proceed with treatment decision-making in cases in which patients lack decisional capacity. They can explain why the tie between treatment decision-making and capacity is morally important and essential for sound ethical medical practice.
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Paying Participants? Incentives Should Be Reasonable for Research Activities Involved
Remember two central ethical concerns: Undue inducement, meaning an offer so attractive it leads to bad judgment, and unjust inducement, meaning payment is more attractive to lower-income people, putting too much of the burden of research participation on them.
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IRBs Face Unique Ethics Questions About Big Data Research
There is a need for ethics review committees to improve oversight capacity for big data research, the authors of a recent paper argued. Researchers assessed the weaknesses of ethics review committees, some of which are not specific to big data research but could be exacerbated by it, and some that are specific to big data research.
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IRBs Scrutinizing Remote Consent, Screening, and Participation in Study Protocols
It is critical to remember face-to-face contact remains the best way to conduct the process of informed consent. Remote processes should not be used as an alternative if face-to-face contact is safe and practical.
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College Students Need Better STI, Sexual Violence Education
Nearly two-thirds of college students reported having experienced sexual and/or physical violence at some time in their lives, according to the results of a new study. -
Better Education on Sexually Transmitted Infections Is Needed
A small study of women who responded to a study recruitment flier that offered a free, rapid HIV test revealed the participants knew very little about sexually transmitted infections. -
Pandemic Unlikely to Have Stopped Trend of Rising STDs, Researchers Suggest
The 2019 STD Surveillance Report noted annual cases of STDs in the United States reached an all-time high in 2019 for the sixth consecutive year. In 2019, there were 2.5 million reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, and a nearly 30% increase in reportable STDs between 2015 and 2019. Data from 2020 showed a similar trend of high STD cases in the first 11 weeks of 2020, but reported cases were much lower than 2019 cases for a week in April 2020. -
Community Health Centers Rarely Offer One-Year Supply of Oral Contraceptives
States and community health centers could do a better job of removing access barriers to oral contraceptives, according to the results of a new study. Only a small percentage of states and community health centers provide patients with a one-year supply of oral contraceptives on site. -
Studies Show the Benefits of School-Based Contraceptive Counseling
The results of two recent studies suggest benefits for adolescents who receive contraceptive services through school-based health centers in Oregon. Contraceptive Technology Update asked lead author Emily R. Boniface, MPH, research associate in Oregon Health and Science University’s department of obstetrics and gynecology, to answer questions about the new research. -
Physician Training with IUDs Partly Affected by Medicaid Expansion Status
A survey of OB/GYN residents revealed a significant difference in exposure to placement of intrauterine devices (IUDs) based on whether they were working as residents in states that expanded Medicaid vs. states that did not. The responses revealed those who worked in university programs in states that accepted Medicaid expansion inserted more IUDs and received more experience with immediate postpartum IUD training than did those in states that did not expand Medicaid.