A pilot program between New York City's Bellevue Hospital and the city's police and fire departments is designed to allow the city to test the feasibility of recovering organs from the 400-plus eligible people who die of cardiac arrest outside of Manhattan hospitals each year, according to an announcement from the city.
The Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA) was enacted several years ago after a consensus of health care providers in that state agreed that there was a need to come up with a process to resolve ethical disputes that can arise at the end of life in a way that would foster dialogue and avoid courts of law whenever possible.
Tennessee, Guam newest on list; Texas removed John Ameen, one of only two practicing obstetrician/gynecologists in rural Monroe County, TN, is considering abandoning the obstetrics arm of his practice because the cost of medical liability insurance has become more than he can afford.
Bleak reports threatening that there will be too few doctors to manage the growing elderly population are wrong, according to researchers at Dartmouth Medical Schools Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS).
If you ever find yourself struggling with the ethical implications of permitting a patient to make a bad medical decision, maybe you should think semantics before you weigh ethics.
Medicare recipients who have a complaint about their quality of care have a means of reporting their complaints but its unlikely they will find out the details of investigations of their complaints, according to the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), which has launched an effort to enact major reforms in the complaints system.
Spurred by the controversy that arose over a court order compelling physicians to participate in prisoner executions, the California Medical Association is sponsoring legislation seeking to eliminate any role of physicians in future executions.
A controversial exhibit featuring preserved, posed human bodies will be shown by the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Baylor College of Medicine through September, despite some complaints that the display is exploitative.
A paper released in November by a British bioethics council has generated hot debate and headlines warning "disabled babies to be killed at birth," but the guidelines set out by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics regarding the treatment of babies born severely premature are similar to those observed in many states in the United States.
In its infancy, neuroethics was thought of as simply a small offshoot of the bigger field of bioethics. In the last five years, however, interest in and study of neuroethics has taken on a life of its own, spawning studies, conferences, and the establishment of a society to further the development of the field. The term "neuroethics" is believed to have been coined in the literature in the early 1990s.
