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Bioethicists call for federal regulation of genetic ancestry testing
Jul 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the popularity of take-home DNA kits to trace ancestry or calculate the risk for serious medical conditions grows, there is an increasingly critical need for federal oversight of "direct-to consumer" genetic ...
Risks of sharing personal genetic information online need more study, bioethicists say
Jun 05, 2009 |
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With just $399 and a bit of saliva in a cup, consumers can learn about their genetic risk for diseases from breast cancer to diabetes. Now, thanks to social networking sites set up by personal genomics companies, they can ...
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Study examines ethical dilemmas of medical tourism
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Medical tourism in Latin America needs to be regulated to protect consumers, according to Université de Montréal researchers. A new study published in the journal Developing World Bioethics argues that Argent ...
Setting priorities for patient-safety efforts will mean hard choices
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Is it more urgent for hospitals, doctors and nurses to focus resources on preventing the thousands of falls that injure hospitalized patients each year, or to home in on preventing rare but dramatic instances of wrong-side ...
New study on effects of disclosing financial interests on participation in medical research
Oct 04, 2008 |
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Knowing how an investigator is paid for running a research study surprisingly plays a small role in patients' willingness to take part in clinical trials. However, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study more participants ...
Tragic choices: Is it better for doctors or patient families to decide?
Apr 20, 2009 |
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In the medical realm, people sometimes need to make very difficult choices, such as deciding to end life-support for a terminally ill patient. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research delves into the question of whe ...
How much is life worth? The $440 billion question
Jun 29, 2009 |
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The decision to use expensive cancer therapies that typically produce only a relatively short extension of survival is a serious ethical dilemma in the U.S. that needs to be addressed by the oncology community, according ...
Army still using physicians in interrogation, bioethicist says
Sep 10, 2008 |
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U.S. Army psychiatrists may be participating in the interrogation of detainees, while ignoring recommendations to the contrary from professional medical associations, according to a Penn State bioethicist and a Georgetown ...
Doctors' opinions not always welcome in life support decisions
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Some caregivers of critical care patients prefer doctors to keep their opinions on life support decisions to themselves, according to new research that challenges long-held beliefs in the critical care community.
High-tech interrogations may promote abuse
Mar 18, 2008 |
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There is evidence that brain imaging technology is being used to interrogate suspected terrorists despite concerns that it may not be reliable, and that it might inadvertently promote abuse of detainees, according to a Penn ...
Ethicists: Include pregnant women in national childrens' study
Jul 09, 2009 |
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An ambitious new national study that aims to follow children from conception through adulthood will miss a golden opportunity to gather data on the most underrepresented population in clinical research - pregnant women, say ...
Organ donors -- and recipients -- are aging
Sep 22, 2009 |
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At 84 years old, Juan Guano would seem an unlikely candidate for a kidney transplant.
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