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The Obama administration earlier this year acted to rescind the so-called "Bush rule" regarding the rights of health care providers related to conscientious refusal.
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Planned Parenthood's entity serving Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota (PPMNS) is continuing legal action in an effort to have certain legislatively mandated scripts to be read by physicians to women seeking abortions in South Dakota.
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Much attention has been focused in the past on the role of hope in healing or in dealing with a terminal illness.
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At this year's annual conference of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, held in October in Washington, DC, one of the new discussions was on the top legal developments in bioethics in 2009.
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Handling mental illness during pregnancy can be a double-edged sword. Because of the scarcity of clinical research with pregnant women, there are no FDA-approved medications for treating such illnesses.
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The Joint Commission (TJC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights announced that "amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic, and language disparities in health care, "the organizations have developed a video titled "Improving Patient-Provider Communication."
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Sickle cell disease is a common condition seen throughout the spectrum of ages. Emergency department (ED) physicians must be aware of the range of presentations and the vulnerability of these patients to certain clinical conditions.
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Many clinical trials have confirmed the benefit of early invasive therapy for high-risk patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes (ACS). However, the optimal timing of cardiac catheterization in this group remains unknown.