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How and when, during the course of a medical students education, should the subject of ethics be taught is a matter of much discussion. One program at the University of Iowas (UI) Carver College of Medicine adds an additional basic element teaching med students how to tell if an ethical problem is really an ethical problem.
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Ensuring age- and condition-appropriate medical care for young patients with special health care needs is challenging enough, but one aspect of their care that may not receive the attention it merits is the effect on a child when he or she is forced to transition from pediatric to adult care.
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There are some ethical issues that are universal end of life decisions, competency, and refusal of treatment, to name a few. But the questions involved and their answers seem to carry added weight when the patients are children.
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Recent challenges to the medical licenses of physicians who participate in state-ordered executions have been dismissed, but the physicians and ethicists who claim that participation violates the American Medical Association (AMA) code of ethics vow to keep up the complaints.
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Mistrust of the medical and science communities may be discouraging non-Caucasian cancer patients from enrolling in clinical trials, a research group has discovered.
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Another vaccine is on the horizon for health care workers this time to protect them and their patients from a troubling resurgence of pertussis, the whooping cough illness that is particularly dangerous for young infants.
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Epidemiology; Laboratory Diagnosis/Testing; Clinical Findings; Treatment/Prophylaxis; Prevention
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This years flu vaccine shortage failed to budge the nations health care workers from their typically dismal rate of vaccination. About 43% of health care workers with direct patient care responsibilities received the vaccine, which is similar to that of prior years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.
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Shortage of influenza vaccine may continue into the 2005-2006 influenza season. As of late February, it was unclear whether Chiron Corp. of Emeryville, CA, would be able to resolve manufacturing problems in time to produce influenza vaccine by next fall. Chiron was one of the two major suppliers of flu vaccine in the United States.
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New highly accurate rapid HIV tests are reshaping the way hospitals are handling bloodborne pathogen exposures.
