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If a genetic test reveals a patient is at high risk for cancer, the ordering physician may think it's important for this information to be shared with others in the family, but the patient may think otherwise.
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Hospitals should provide medical monitoring of employees who work with hazardous drugs, but they don't need to conduct periodic blood tests or urinalysis, according to new recommendations from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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For weeks, 25-year-old Richard Din worked long hours in the lab, hoping for a research breakthrough. At the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, he was a research laboratory associate on a project to develop a vaccine against Neisseria meningitides serogroup B. But instead of saving lives, Din became a victim of the deadly organism.
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Is a physician unable to exercise reasonable objectivity in providing care, or does the physician lack the requisite skill or training to help the patient?
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There is nothing like a mandatory hospital evacuation to underscore the importance of including ethics in emergency preparedness, according to Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, professor and director of the Bioethics Program at University of Miami (FL).
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Almost half of family caregivers perform nursing and medical tasks for family members with chronic physical and cognitive conditions, often without any training, in large part because hospitals are discharging very sick patients more quickly, according to a September 2012 report released by the AARP Public Policy Institute and the United Hospital Fund.
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Refusing to have a child as a patient because of a decision made by the child's parent should always be a last resort, according to Douglas S. Diekema, MD, MPH, attending physician and director of education at the Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics at Seattle (WA) Children's Hospital.
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One of the biggest ethical challenges with drug safety is the need for patients and providers to understand that even after a drug is approved, there is still more to learn about its benefits and potential harms, according to Ruth R. Faden, PhD, MPH, Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics in Baltimore, MD.
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Two-thirds of medical students and residents believe there is a need for more ethics training during their curricula and training programs, according to a survey of 129 medical students and 207 residents done in 2009 and 2010 at University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues offered 14 recommendations for improving oversight of human subjects' research:
