http://www.bioethics.net/rss/endoflife.xml bioethics news everyday from bioethics.net/American Journal of Bioethics Copyright 2005 bioethics.net Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:42 EST http://www.bioethics.net/ http://www.bioethics.net/images/logo_frontpage_wht.gif 60 200 webmaster@bioethics.net newsupdate@bioethics.net en-us http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8308 Augustus Monroe figured he'd drop dead long before he'd need a nursing home. A decade later, his son considers the weighty financial and emotional costs that come with a parent's immortality. #bioethics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:42 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8306 Asking people to draw up plans for how they want to be treated in their final days can halve the number of unplanned hospital admissions, according to a study. #bioethics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:28:22 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8292 With the number of dying each year expected to increase, the government needs to make the right to a good death a priority. #bioethics Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:42:42 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8283 There is good evidence that physicians have thought out end-of-life issues more thoroughly than lay people and are more likely to decline medical intervention. #bioethics Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:34:09 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8275 Researchers at UC San Francisco are touting a new software that may help determine the likelihood of death in older and terminally ill populations. Is it ethical? #bioethics Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:32:16 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8254 But very few of them have any kind of conversation like this with their healthcare providers. #bioethics Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:53 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8238 The family of a 1-year-old California boy who was shot in the head when gunfire erupted during the filming of a rap music video issued a public plea Wednesday to keep him on life support. #bioethics Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:57:56 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8226 How old is too old? Perhaps never in healthcare. Ever-increasing costs prompt some doctors to ask if a patient can be too old for a lifesaving but expensive procedure. #bioethics Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:13:14 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8224 Most people don’t want to think about death, much less plan for it — especially when they feel healthy and young in their middle-age years. And that, some baby boomers say, is one of the big reasons so few of them have end-of-life legal documents such as a living will. #bioethics Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:46:50 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8222 Marcia Angell was an editor of the most prestigious medical journal in the world for two decades, but now her ethics credentials are being challenged. #bioethics Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:08:38 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8219 Doctors 'value life above all else', physician says on second day of right-to-die case. #bioethics Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:04:22 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8217 A poll released Tuesday found that an overwhelming majority of doctors support palliative care, with 96 percent responding that they believe enhancing the quality of life for seriously ill patients is more important than extending life as long as possible. Despite these sentiments, many physicians responded that they have some hesitations about palliative care and that there are barriers to its full adoption. #bioethics Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:38:06 EST http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8191 Forming teams that can help the chronically or terminally ill has show tremendous benefit and is a growing field. But questions, mostly about costs, remain. #bioethics Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:33:10 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8183 Nurses must resist the temptation to “ignore” requests to assist their patients to die, the Royal College of Nursing has advised. #bioethics Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:44:08 EDT http://www.bioethics.net/News/?id=8182 Are we getting what we pay for in healthcare at the end of life? Many say, "No way." #bioethics Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:42:58 EDT