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Promising new HIV prevention approaches are within reach, but international AIDS experts say the world is not prepared to make those approaches accessible to populations most at risk.
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When Virginia teenager Abraham Cherrix decided early in 2006 to take control of his treatment for Hodgkin's disease, his aversion to traditional chemotherapy drove him to seek an alternative, herb-based therapy available in Mexico a decision that put him and his family at odds with his physicians and the Virginia Department of Social Services, which sought to force him into chemotherapy and petitioned for custody.
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Ann Latty was facing a bleak situation. Diagnosed with a cataract that needed immediate surgery, but without money or insurance to cover the operation, she wasn't sure her vision could be preserved.
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Doctors tend to agree that accepting free samples from pharmaceutical companies is acceptable; but, while they suspect such incentives create bias among their peers, they don't think they are susceptible to being biased themselves.
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New York has become the latest state to enact a law requiring hospitals to provide language assistance, or translators, to patients with limited English proficiency specifically, translators who are not family members, friends, or hospital staff unskilled in translating.
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Major revisions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for HIV screening are either a boon to the task of identifying the 250,000 Americans who carry the virus but don't know it or a blow to patient autonomy and privacy.
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U.S. hospitals provided $28.8 billion in uncompensated care in 2005, up from $26.9 billion in 2004.
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To enhance patients' satisfaction levels -- not to mention their ability to rest and heal -- Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY, has gone "back to the basics," says Elodia Mercier, RNC, MS, ANM, administrative nurse manager.
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In the precarious world of checking information for patients who have been to their facility before, hospitals often juggle two important considerations: data integrity and customer relations.
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At Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, patient flow representatives begin working to positively impact a patient's experience the moment he or she enters the emergency department (ED), says Kirsten Royster, MPA, director of patient access.