[Kaiser Health News] As Congress mulls changing America’s border and naturalization rules, a study finds that immigrant workers are helping buttress Medicare’s finances, because they contribute tens of billions a year more than immigrant retirees u…
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[Kaiser Health News] Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn’t think much about the problem of misdiagnosis.
That was before doctors at a Maryland hospita…
This poll is a startling wake-up call. How can the public be empowered to take control of their own healthcare and health in the face of so much uncertainty? How can the bioethics community better communicate with the public?
[The Washington Post] If …
[ProPublica, by Charles Ornstein] My father, sister and I sat in the near-empty Chinese restaurant, picking at our plates, unable to avoid the question that we’d gathered to discuss: When was it time to let Mom die?
It had been a grueling day at …
[Kaiser Health News] Federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid. But a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor has long paid about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for …
The lead author on this breakthrough article, covered by NBC and the New York Times to name a few, is a senior in college at Washington St. Louis! Below is the abstact. The complete study is available for free by clicking the link below.
[JAMA Intern…
[Virtual Mentor] It is generally accepted that medicine, and indeed all health care, should be based on or informed by evidence. Yet this truism belies the complexities and nuances involved in understanding what we mean by evidence and how it serves as…
01/03/2013
Emerging biotechnologies: ethical issues
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics recently published a report on Emerging Biotechnologies. The full report can be downloaded here.
What is an ‘emerging biotechnology’
Emerging biotechnologies differ considerably in nature and purpose, but some…
03/24/2013
A critical look at a recent report accusing leading bioethics journals of practicing “institutionalized racism”
Original commentary by BEI Young Professionals member Brittany Rush.
The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry recently published a letter to the editor titled “Bioethics and Its Gatekeepers: Does Institutional Racism Exist in Leading Bioethics Journals?…
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