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VA mandates review of research programs; Partial-birth abortion ban approved by Senate.
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This article contains an excerpt from the ethics guidelines of the American Medical Association (AMA): E-2.037 Medical Futility in End-of-Life Care.
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According to a recent analysis by the Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA), 18 states are experiencing a medical liability crisis, with residents unable to get needed medical care because physicians there cannot afford insurance premiums for medical malpractice coverage.
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The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is conducting a review of the circumstances leading to a transplant fatality, in which a recipient received a heart-lung transplant from a donor with an incompatible blood type, the network reports.
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Given that fewer than half of families approached about organ donation give consent, it is essential that hospitals and procurement coordinators examine how they approach families at such a crucial time, say officials with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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UT Supreme Court upholds wrongful-life statute; Consumer group claims doctors strike unlawful; NEJM retracts study after authors point to forgery
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Even as this country struggles with a shortage of organs from donors, some ethicists are beginning to question the morality of harvesting organs from the group that serves as their primary source patients who are brain dead but have functioning hearts, lungs, and circulatory systems.
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As shortages continue, experts weigh alternatives. When a patient in Chicago nephrologist Paul W. Crawfords practice suddenly turned up with a new kidney after a trip to Mexico, the doctor didnt want to ask a lot of questions.
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State health policy experts and pharmaceutical company officials are anxiously awaiting the U.S. Supreme Courts decision on a controversial Maine program designed to help residents unable to afford prescription drug coverage get lower-cost medications.
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At the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, infectious diseases physician John D. Shanley, MD, faced a difficult decision last month. Would he be one of his hospitals smallpox response team volunteers and receive the vaccine?
