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HIV Research Poses Unique Ethical Issues
When IRBs review HIV studies, particularly those aimed at finding a cure to the disease, there are some tricky ethical challenges that might not be seen in other types of research.
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HIV Cure Research Includes Tricky Ethical Challenges
Some geneticists compared the work by He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, to the pioneering in vitro fertilization efforts that resulted in the birth of Louise Brown in 1978. Many others criticized the scientist for the ethical issues his experiment raised.
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Burnout Intervention Dramatically Reduced ICU Turnover
A recent study paints a clear picture of the financial impact on hospitals if burnout goes unaddressed.
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Up to 20% of Patients Excluded From Transplant Due to Lack of Social Support
Social support is one of the factors providers use to determine whether a patient is a candidate for transplant. Recent research suggests this longstanding practice is ethically problematic and should be reconsidered.
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Case-Based Approach to Ethics Education: Consistency Is Goal
Ethicists have another resource to turn to for challenging dilemmas: A Case-Based Study Guide for Addressing Patient-Centered Ethical Issues in Health Care.
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Surprising Ethics Knowledge Gaps in Emergency Medicine Residents
Gaps in clinical ethics knowledge appear prevalent among emergency medicine trainees, and few programs feature dedicated ethics modules, found a recent study.
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Too Few Ethics Consults for Children With Chronic Critical Illness: Less Than 1%
Very few hospitalized children with chronic critical illness get ethics or palliative care consultations, found a recent study.
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Geneticist: Rogue Scientist’s Gene-Editing Procedure Violated Bedrock Ethical Principles
A Chinese scientist’s recent announcement of a genome-editing procedure performed to protect children from HIV has significant implications for the bioethics and genomics fields.
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More Data on Moral Distress: It Harms Nurses, Physicians, Hospitals — and Patients
A group of researchers set out to learn the most effective ways to decrease moral distress in healthcare. In the process, they discovered the toll it was taking was greater than expected.
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Values-based Advance Care Planning in Outpatient Oncology
A values-based advance care planning paradigm was acceptable to the vast majority of cancer outpatients but may increase distress, found a recent study.