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May 15, 2013
A new study in the International
Nursing Review compares
nurses' end-of-life treatment preferences in Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy
and the USA. Nurses in every country consistently chose a more aggressive
option for patients than ...
May 15, 2013
Here's a great Youtube video on PEG tube placement; it seems to be up as a marketing move by the company that made it. Is there any reason why patients and their families shouldn't always watch something like this in connection with informed consent fo...
May 15, 2013
A international team including scientists from Oregon Health & Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center have just announced in Cell that they have successfully used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to develop human emb...
May 15, 2013
The Vermont legislature has passed a new physician-assisted suicide law and is sending it to Governor Shumlin, who supports it and is expected to sign. The Oregon-style legislation will be the third such state law in the country and the first adopted b...
May 15, 2013
My wife and I spent May 10-11 at the annual conference of Biola’s Center for Christian Thought (CCT), where the theme for 2012-2013 has been “Neuroscience and the Soul.” The plenary talks are not all on the web, yet, although some are on Facebo...
May 15, 2013
In the April issue of Health Affairs, a group of authors explored the cost-containment strategies and four “high income countries“, and try to see what they were doing that we are currently not doing in the United States. The first picture ...
May 15, 2013
In two prior posts I wrote about how dealing with a student who committed plagiarism on an ethics paper made me think about why I teach bioethics and what I really want students to learn. Above all Christian ethics is about learning to live a morally u...
May 14, 2013
When it rains it pours. In addition to the news out of Vermont, today the European Court of Human Rights issued its opinion in the case of Gross v. Switzerland.
Alda Gross has no known pathological condition or clinical illness. &nbs...
May 14, 2013
[The Guardian] It was an extraordinarily public declaration of an incredibly private experience. But when Angelina Jolie took to the comment pages of the New York Times to declare that she had undergone a double mastectomy, she spearheaded a new awaren...
May 14, 2013
I am not a fan of judging the quality of a nation’s healthcare system by examining life expectancy. Many, many factors influence life expectancy that have nothing to do with healthcare. When examining life expectancy in developed countries, for examp...
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