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For cancer patients who have exhausted all available treatment options, Phase I research trials of new oncology drugs may be their only hope. But does that hope come at too high a price?
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Would your ethics committee approve a request to perform nontherapeutic surgery that would permanently alter the body of a healthy patient without his or her consent? What if the patient was very young and the parents wanted the surgery for religious or cultural reasons?
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The privacy regulations enacted as part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have caused some unforeseen complications for hospitals trying to ensure patient safety and improve communication between providers and patients, say health care professionals and legal experts.
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Updated EMTALA rule eases hospitals risk; Johns Hopkins program loses its accreditation; AMA to provide ethics alerts to MDs
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Frontline access management staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston face excruciating tasks on a daily basis.
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Hospitals struggling to survive while absorbing an increasing amount of uncompensated health care are welcoming recent changes to federal patient-dumping legislation that clarify and limit the instances in which hospitals are required to provide care regardless of a patients ability to pay.
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Concerned that their loved ones mental capacities may not be able to keep up with their physical maturity, parents and guardians of adults and adolescents with mental retardation sometimes seek to have these people undergo medical sterilization procedures to prevent what they perceive as the potential burden of unanticipated parenthood.
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Ask many physicians about informed consent and often youll find they consider it a concept clear in ethics texts, but murky in practice.
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As new information technologies continue to make person-to-person communications easier and more varied, they also are transforming the way that health care can be provided.
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