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When the federal government suspended human subjects research at Virginia Commonwealth University of Richmond, VA, in 2000, the institution's leaders turned the bad news into an opportunity to create a new and improved human subjects research program.
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Call it health care travel or medical tourism, international travel by people seeking medical procedures and therapies is big business, with estimates commonly in the neighborhood of $20 billion per year.
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In recent months, 16 of the 38 states that have the death penalty have put executions on hold, primarily over objections raised regarding the lethal injection method.
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A patient on a transplant waiting list learns she can quickly and less expensively obtain the organ she needs in Thailand.
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Health care providers are among groups ethically and legally obligated to report suspected child abuse.
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It's a slippery slope say those who oppose legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS): Legalizing PAS will create disproportionate death rates among groups such as the elderly, uninsured, mentally ill, and poor. But a team of international ethicists say data don't support that concern.
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A chaplain who recently resigned from her post at Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, said her resignation was requested by the hospital after she tried to end a policy permitting The Gideons missionary organization to deliver Bibles to all hospital patients.
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Research ethics is seen as a nuisance at best, an impediment to progress at worst, says a Cornell University medical ethicist, who adds that a closer collaboration between researchers and ethicists might lead to a change in that perception.
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As 2007 draws to a close, review the changes at your family planning facility. How has the mix of contraceptive options changed throughout the year?
