The Supreme Courts recent ruling that DNA is a product of nature and not patent-eligible is expected to lower prices and make genetic tests more accessible to larger segments of the population.
Social media provides significant opportunities in medical practice, but ethical concerns include inappropriate use, which threatens the relationship between physicians and patients.
Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and Montana now allow physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients who meet certain criteria and request lethal prescriptions.
Clinical ethicists typically play an advisory role, and their recommendations arent always accepted or followed by the clinical team.
Patient autonomy and parental rights are two primary ethical concerns involving access to emergency contraception, which was recently approved with over-the-counter status without age restriction.
