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VA mandates review of research programs; Partial-birth abortion ban approved by Senate.
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Patients with severe, irreversible brain injuries present unique ethical challenges to physicians and hospital ethics committees. For patients with no chance of recovering an interactive, conscious state, which treatments are appropriate and which are unjustifiably invasive and pointless?
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Nearly every hospital has them, and most doctors have seen them, treated them, and agonized over them. They are patients with a slim, if not nonexistent, chance of recovery, who continue to receive intense, invasive, and costly procedures because there is no other clear alternative.
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State health policy experts and pharmaceutical company officials are anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Courts decision on a controversial Maine program designed to help residents unable to afford prescription drug coverage get lower-cost medications.
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As shortages continue, experts weigh alternatives. When a patient in Chicago nephrologist Paul W. Crawfords practice suddenly turned up with a new kidney after a trip to Mexico, the doctor didnt want to ask a lot of questions.
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Even as this country struggles with a shortage of organs from donors, some ethicists are beginning to question the morality of harvesting organs from the group that serves as their primary source patients who are brain dead but have functioning hearts, lungs, and circulatory systems.
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UT Supreme Court upholds wrongful-life statute; Consumer group claims doctors strike unlawful; NEJM retracts study after authors point to forgery
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Given that fewer than half of families approached about organ donation give consent, it is essential that hospitals and procurement coordinators examine how they approach families at such a crucial time, say officials with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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Scientists knowledgeable about the process of cloning animals say they doubt the Canadian-based group Clonaid actually has produced a cloned human baby, as the sect announced Dec. 27. But, some experts say, the publicity generated by the claim may push lawmakers to restrict scientific research into both reproductive and therapeutic cloning
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Academic medical centers frequently engage in industry-sponsored research that does not adhere to basic standards needed to protect the independence and objectivity of the investigators and the interests of patients who consent to be subjects, a study by researchers at Duke University in Durham, NC, has found.
