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The death of a 49-year-old woman from a heart attack after waiting two hours to be seen in the emergency room of a Waukegan, IL, hospital has been ruled a homicide following a grand jury inquest.
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Attorney General Charles Foti has stated that he believes his office has uncovered enough evidence for the Orleans Parish District Attorney to charge three health care providers with murder in the deaths of four patients.
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Ethics rules aimed at curbing conflicts of interest of National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees should have a positive impact on public opinion of NIH credibility, a survey of agency employees revealed.
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The right of competent, informed patients to reject lifesaving therapies has been affirmed by courts at every level, but a group of ethicists at the University of Pennsylvania wondered whether the line is as clear when it comes to supplemental oxygen.
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Patients hospitalized at University of Rochester (NY) Medical Center might not be able to kick the habit during their hospitalization, but staff will no longer be aiding their addiction.
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Discussion about the merits and drawbacks of using patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) as subjects for experiments in xenotransplantation gathered some notice.
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Supreme Court: Rules on EMRs not too lax; Report: Lax handling of doctors who do crimes?
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) is looking back on the role of nurses during and after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and wants to take what was learned during that time, coupled with the ANA Code of Ethics, and come up with guidelines and policies to assist nurses in making ethical decisions during disasters.
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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.