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Since there have been pandemics and vaccines to fight them, ethicists have wrestled with the question of who should have priority when it comes to distributing vaccine. The federal government has released a draft in which it sets out how health authorities should allocate scarce doses of influenza vaccine in the event of a pandemic.
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A survey of 5,000 U.S. medical students reveals that just over one-third understand the Geneva Conventions as they apply to military medical ethics; underlying that finding is the additional revelation that very few receive any medical school instruction in military medical ethics.
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Two foundations that seek to establish a constitutional right to experimental therapy for the seriously ill will challenge a recent decision in a federal appeals court that favors the FDA's more cautious approach to access to experimental drugs.
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The Seattle pediatric endocrinologist who spearheaded the growth attenuation treatment on a disabled 9-year-old girl known as "Ashley" died in an apparent suicide in late September.
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HIV vaccine trials likely will continue for a decade or longer, raising questions about ethical considerations of enrolling participants across the globe.
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Call it health care travel or medical tourism, international travel by people seeking medical procedures and therapies is big business, with estimates commonly in the neighborhood of $20 billion per year.
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In recent months, 16 of the 38 states that have the death penalty have put executions on hold, primarily over objections raised regarding the lethal injection method.
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A patient on a transplant waiting list learns she can quickly and less expensively obtain the organ she needs in Thailand.
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Health care providers are among groups ethically and legally obligated to report suspected child abuse.
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It's a slippery slope say those who oppose legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS): Legalizing PAS will create disproportionate death rates among groups such as the elderly, uninsured, mentally ill, and poor. But a team of international ethicists say data don't support that concern.
