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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might have avoided one kind of controversy over the so-called morning-after contraceptive, but it created another by indefinitely delaying approval for the pill known as Plan B to be sold over the counter (OTC).
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Many anesthesiologists say its what they fear second only to a patient dying during surgery: A patient wakes up during an operation and, though feeling and hearing what is happening to him or her, is incapable of letting the surgical team know.
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Is it ethical to enroll an elderly person with Alzheimers disease in a new research study, even if he or she doesnt really understand what it entails? What if the research has real risks, is unlikely to benefit the patient, but could lead to advances that will help future patients with Alzheimers?
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With patients being required to pay more of their medical costs, a study getting under way at Wake Forest (NC) University School of Medicine looks at how this added responsibility affects the care that patients receive and what the implications are for health care law and medical ethics.
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Ethics committees have, in the past three decades, become ubiquitous in American hospitals. But while most hospitals have ethics committees, the makeup of those committees can vary depending on the institution they serve.
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An apparent violation of federal organ transplantation procedures at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and the subsequent voluntary suspension of transplants at the hospital have directed new scrutiny on the process by which donor organs are distributed in the United States.
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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) announced its 100,000 Lives Campaign one year ago, with the lofty goal of enlisting 1,500 to 2,000 hospitals that would pledge to adopt six initiatives that, if implemented, would save 100,000 lives over an 18-month period by preventing avoidable medical errors.
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American physicians are recognized by many as leading the world in delivering the best medical care, but their expertise in delivering news of death to patients families is less than stellar, according to a death issues educator.
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Just a few years ago, kidneys in an adult age 60 or older, or in someone age 50 to 59 who had two or more of the following criteria death from stroke, hypertension, or elevated creatinine were considered outside the standard criteria for transplantation and went with their owner to the grave.
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Like any other businesses in a competitive market, hospitals are investing heavily in advertising; but hospitals are held to a different standard than supermarkets and car dealerships when it comes to vying for customers.
