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The National Academies have released a set of recommended guidelines for research using human embryonic stem cells, advising research institutions to establish separate oversight committees for such research.
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Staff within the Veterans Affairs (VA) research arm have produced a handbook for veterans considering involvement in clinical trials.
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A review of nearly 40 years of research of interventions intended to improve informed consent for research participants found mixed results for some of the most popular methods studied. It also revealed a significant lack of good, methodologically sound studies of these informed consent interventions to see which ones work best, says one of the authors.
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A group of NIH researchers known as the Assembly of Scientists (AOS) is continuing organized opposition to implementation of stringent new conflict-of-interest rules slated for full implementation late this year.
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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002 issued a report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare, that concludes that bias, prejudice, and stereotyping on the part of health care providers may result in differences in care.
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Suspecting that a colleague might be impaired by drugs or alcohol is difficult; knowing what to do with those suspicions is even harder.
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So-called conscience-clause laws that permit physicians to refuse to perform certain procedures or deliver certain types of care came into popularity after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in 1973.
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A report published in the February Annals of Internal Medicine has received lots of attention as the study that says older doctors dont keep up, but the findings of the Harvard Medical School study apply to any physician who has been out of residency for five years or more, its author says.
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The ultrasound technology behind his companys fingerprint identify management system is identical to that used in medical imaging such as the ultrasound procedure that expectant mothers undergo explains the founder of Ultra-Scan Corp. in Buffalo, NY.
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The latest addition to the extensive self-pay menu offered by Marlton, NJ-based Virtua Health is the General Electric medical credit card program, says Virtua's assistant vice president for patient business services.
