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(Editor's note: Medical Ethics Advisor will run monthly items on what leads people to become involved in their hospital ethics committee and/or choose to enter the profession of bioethics.)
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Over the past decade, several large-scale disasters have tested emergency response teams and health care providers. They've also tested the research community's ability to quickly, efficiently, and ethically dispatch investigators to do vital research that could help prevent and respond to future disasters.
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More meaningfully involving communities especially minorities and other ethnic groups in clinical research isn't just good ethics it could help address underrecruitment and failure of cancer clinical trials, says one of the authors of a new report on the subject.
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Change is never easy, but the toughest type of change is behavior or culture change within a hospice, says Susan Levitt, executive director of CNS Home Health and Hospice in Carol Stream, IL.
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When treatment options dwindle or are exhausted, terminally ill patients often opt for pain management and comfort over life-extending therapies.
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Investigators at the University of Pennsylvania in their study found that hospice services have restrictions that reduce usage by many patients who are most in need, particularly African-Americans, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Hospice nurses, aides, and therapists do a wonderful job caring for their patients, so it is natural that the patients and families want to thank them with gifts.
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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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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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Much attention has been focused in the past on the role of hope in healing or in dealing with a terminal illness.
