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Attorney General Charles Foti has stated that he believes his office has uncovered enough evidence for the Orleans Parish District Attorney to charge three health care providers with murder in the deaths of four patients.
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The death of a 49-year-old woman from a heart attack after waiting two hours to be seen in the emergency room of a Waukegan, IL, hospital has been ruled a homicide following a grand jury inquest.
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The state with the landmark statute allowing dying patients to ask their physicians for medication they can choose to take to end their lives has changed the term for the act from "suicide" to "death".
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While it was not always so, nurses are now members of ethics committees in most hospitals, and are participating in consults where they traditionally were not.
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The clinical trial industry continues to experience major delays, leading to higher costs and a slow pipeline of products making it to market, experts say.
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There are a number of innovative practices IRBs can employ to improve their office's efficiency and work quality.
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When investigators interviewed 22 children in 1992, the IRB had questions, but the project was approved, leading to one of the few studies conducted in its area of interest.
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In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, New York City became a focal point for researchers interested in studying everything from post-traumatic stress disorder to physical complications among workers at the Ground Zero site.
