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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its guidance on the use of antiviral drugs for pandemic influenza in December 2008, suggesting that health care workers and emergency services personnel who could have direct contact with individuals who are ill during a pandemic should be protected.
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"We contend that the proposition that brain death constitutes death of the human being is incoherent and, therefore, not credible."
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The Joint Commission (TJC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights announced that "amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health care, "the organizations have developed a video titled "Improving Patient-Provider Communication."
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Handling mental illness during pregnancy can be a double-edged sword. Because of the scarcity of clinical research with pregnant women, there are no FDA-approved medications for treating such illnesses.
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At this year's annual conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, held in October in Washington, DC, one of the new discussions was on the top legal developments in bioethics in 2009.
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Much attention has been focused in the past on the role of hope in healing or in dealing with a terminal illness.
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Planned Parenthood's entity serving Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota (PPMNS) is continuing legal action in an effort to have certain legislatively mandated scripts to be read by physicians to women seeking abortions in South Dakota.
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The Obama administration earlier this year acted to rescind the so-called "Bush rule" regarding the rights of health care providers related to conscientious refusal.
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), signed into law earlier this year by President Obama, contained within it about a $20 billion allocation to increase provider utilization and networking of electronic medical records (EMR).
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Rationing. Responsibility for immigrant health care. Socialism. Death panels. Individual responsibility. Single-payer option. Malpractice reform.