Medical Ethics
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Health Officials Recall Swine Flu Vaccine
Hundreds of thousands of doses of swine flu vaccines are being recalled after tests indicate they may not be potent enough to protect against the virus
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Pharmaceutical Advertising
Using direct-to-consumer advertising, causes drug costs to soar.
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Pfizer Drug Company Settlement Touches Indiana
Although the Food and Drug Administration approved four of Pfizer's drugs for a specific use, including Bextra, Pfizer decided to promote them for "off-label" uses.
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The State of Black Health
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman" -Rev. Martin Luther King
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Nurse Practitioners Influenced by Drug Marketing
New study indicates incentive marketing by pharmaceutical drug companies may have more impact on medical prescriptions by family nurse practitioners than most are aware.
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Turning off Your Pacemaker
Some physicians have ethical concerns about deactivating a pacemaker before its wearer has died. In certain situations, however, that's the appropriate thing to do.
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Advanced Directives
What are advanced directives, what are the different types of advanced directives and how do they work?
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Professional Boundaries
Therapists are trusted with very personal information. Thus, it's important that they respect specific boundaries for their own safety and that of their clients.
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Circumcision Protects against AIDS
NIH has terminated clinical trials after circumcision was seen to protect against spread of AIDS. This outcome is related to the ethics of research on human subjects.
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Selecting Genes in Offspring
Some members of the deaf and dwarf communities want to pass on these characteristics to their offspring. This development is compared to other forms of community identity
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Deaths from Errors in Hospitals
Recent studies have documented evidence of injuries and deaths in hospitals due to medical errors. This article situates these developments in wider historical contexts.
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Pain in 19th & 21st Centuries
A research study compares surgical and non-surgical interventions on patients with back pain. This article contrasts the views of pain in 19th & 21st century medicine.
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Social Justice v. Market Incentive
This article surveys two of the most widely discussed models for dealing with issues of distributive justice in health care: market based approaches or social justice.
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Stem Cell Research and Abortion
Many opponents of abortion and stem cell research believe that both procedures involve taking life. Yet, the two procedures have differing ethical rationales.
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Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are experiments on human subjects--which means that ethical issues are always present. This article surveys historically prominent ethical debates.
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Quit Smoking: Who Should Pay?
Quitting smoking is emotionally and financially taxing. Who is responsible to pay for the drugs and therapy required to kick the habit? The smokers or the tobacco makers?
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Insite's Future Still Undecided
Insite, North America's only safe-injection centre is slated to close on September 12, 2006, but aren't we morally obligated to keep it open?
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