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Some people are at greater risk for serious side effects from the smallpox vaccine. Individuals who have any of the following conditions, or live with someone who does, should NOT get the smallpox vaccine unless they have been exposed to the smallpox virus.
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For management of a single presumptive smallpox patient, assume the following.
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The recent massive preparations for a potential bioterrorist smallpox attack may radically change the way the nations health system is expected to respond to public health threats, at the same time ushering in a new wave of dilemmas for hospital ethics committees and administrators, say some policy experts.
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Academic medical centers frequently engage in industry-sponsored research that does not adhere to basic standards needed to protect the independence and objectivity of the investigators and the interests of patients who consent to be subjects, a study by researchers at Duke University in Durham, NC, has found.
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Scientists knowledgeable about the process of cloning animals say they doubt the Canadian-based group Clonaid actually has produced a cloned human baby, as the sect announced Dec. 27. But, some experts say, the publicity generated by the claim may push lawmakers to restrict scientific research into both reproductive and therapeutic cloning
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For cancer patients who have exhausted all available treatment options, Phase I research trials of new oncology drugs may be their only hope. But does that hope come at too high a price?
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Would your ethics committee approve a request to perform nontherapeutic surgery that would permanently alter the body of a healthy patient without his or her consent? What if the patient was very young and the parents wanted the surgery for religious or cultural reasons?
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The privacy regulations enacted as part of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) have caused some unforeseen complications for hospitals trying to ensure patient safety and improve communication between providers and patients, say health care professionals and legal experts.
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Updated EMTALA rule eases hospitals risk; Johns Hopkins program loses its accreditation; AMA to provide ethics alerts to MDs
