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Physician groups' opposition to doctors participating in death penalty executions has put a moratorium on prisoner executions in North Carolina for nearly a year, and now a group of nurses are following the lead of their state's physician licensing board.
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'Lights camera:' Bill calls for videotaped surgeries; Medical researchers not as unbiased as they think
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The mass shootings at Virginia Tech in April fueled the national debate over gun control, and physicians treating those killed and injured in the rampage expressed shock at the extent of the violence.
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If there is any state that is currently a lightning rod for issues relating to futility of care, it would be Texas. Medical professionals, right-to-life and disability rights organizations, churches, and civil liberties groups are doing battle over the Texas Advance Directives Act (TADA); many of the same parties have taken sides over a terminally ill Austin toddler whose mother is fighting a hospital's efforts to invoke the act to end the boy's life-sustaining treatments.
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A bill that would make California the second state in the country to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has worked its way through the state assembly's Judiciary Committee, but needs to clear the state House by June 8 to be eligible for consideration this year by the state Senate.
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Should a pandemic strike the United States, states and local communities are ready with protective equipment and plans for allocating vaccines. But some important ethical questions aren't addressed in state pandemic flu plans, one public health expert says, and those are the issues that might derail the best-laid disaster plans.
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A "flurry" of new studies suggesting that there is a link between sexually transmitted diseases and non-circumcision has led the American Association of Pediatrics (AAP) to undertake a new review of its policy on the procedure.
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Hospice evolved from the need to provide medical and social support to terminally ill patients in the last weeks of their lives. But while the benefits hospice can provide have expanded, the perception that hospice is where patients go to die has, until recently, stayed the same.
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For a doctor, telling a patient or patient's family that a medical error has happened in the course of his or her care is hard enough. But what if the error was committed by another provider?
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A Kansas Supreme Court ruling that defined physicians as "suppliers" prompted swift action by legislators, who have taken action on a bill that would exclude health care providers from being sued for deceptive practices under the state Consumer Protection Act.
