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Increase in 'academic doping' could spark routine urine tests for exam students
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2009 |
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The increasing use of smart drugs or "nootropics," to boost academic performance, could mean that exam students will face routine doping tests in future, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Hospitalized patients need better understanding of CPR and outcomes
Jun 03, 2009 |
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Many hospitalized patients overestimate their chance of surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest and do not know what CPR really involves, a University of Iowa study has shown.
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Human Tissue Act may have helped research, says study
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Fears that medical research using tissue such as blood or material from biopsies would be obstructed by the Human Tissue Act 2004 may have been unfounded, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.
The suicide tourist trap
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 31, 2009 |
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The international media report that citizens from across the world are travelling, or seeking to travel, to Switzerland, where they hope to be helped to die. But this 'suicide tourism' presents distinctive ...
Doctors must be held accountable for complying with torture
Aug 01, 2008 |
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Doctors who assist in torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment should face prosecution and licensing punishments, says an editorial on BMJ.com today.
Medical journal ethics questioned again
Jul 19, 2006 |
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Another U.S. medical journal ethics case arose this week, this time involving Dr. Charles Nemeroff, the editor of the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
Religion and the narrative of biological science
May 12, 2008 |
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There exists much ethical controversy brought about by advances in biology and medicine and the relationship to religion. In a new essay in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Laurie Zoloth takes an approach to medica ...
When the patient can't decide
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Family members are often called upon to make medical choices for patients who are unable to do so themselves. Researchers led by Alexia Torke, M.D., of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, ...
Communicating in a pandemic: New research identifies what we want to know and when
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- How much information do people want in the event of an influenza pandemic? When do they want to be told, and who should the information come from?
Embarrassing illnesses no bar to information sharing
Jul 24, 2009 |
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People with potentially 'stigmatizing' medical conditions are just as likely as those with less stigmatizing illnesses to allow their personal information to be used for health research. A new study, published in the open ...
Stem- cell research ethics revision urged
Sep 20, 2005 |
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University of California-San Francisco scientists are urging a revision of stem-cell research ethics in advance of using the procedure to treat disease.
PR pros are good ethical thinkers, study finds
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Aug 12, 2009 |
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For years journalists and others have questioned the ethics of public relations practitioners and firms. People in PR, however, appear to be getting a bad rap. That's what a new study funded by the Arthur W. Page Center ...
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