High-need, high-cost patients offer solutions for improving their care and reducing costs
Dr. Rainu Kaushal and colleagues analyze much needed solutions for reduction in high healthcare utilization among high-need, high-risk patients By ...
Tag: Medical/Scientific Ethics
Side-effects not fully reported in more than 30 percent of healthcare reviews
The potential side-effects of health interventions were not fully reported in more than a third of published health study reviews, ...
Cell lines deserve unique considerations when creating research protections, authors say
Researchers, ethicists urge policymakers to view immortal cells differently from other biospecimens as new rules go into effect ANN ARBOR, ...
Achieving a balance: Animal welfare and conservation
Real-life conservation scenarios with endangered hawaiian birds to scientifically evaluate balance for re-introductions In a paper recently published in the ...
UBC research examines living well while dying
Study shows how terminal cancer patients choose to live life with new meaning A UBC professor has determined that people ...
The inaugural issue of Ethics & Human Research, January — February 2019
Credit: Hope, by Angie Kenber, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cms Private Collection/Bridgeman Images The journal's name change "provides ...
Patients who identify as transgender have lower odds of being screened for cancer: Study
Study at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital found transgender patients had 70 percent lower odds of being screened for breast cancer ...
In breast-cancer prevention, race matters
Study: Black women face additional obstacles to information, receive less preventive careCredit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - African-American ...
Patient re-contact after revision of genomic test results: A new ACMG points to consider
Patient re-contact after revision of genomic test results: Points to consider -- a statement of the American College of Medical ...
Strengthen science, avoid unnecessary animal experiments
New register for animal experiments launched by the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals "With this register, we ...
Scientists call for more diversity in genomic research
A growing number of genomic studies have generated important discoveries regarding human health and behaviour, but new research from the ...
What does 'dead' mean?
Credit: Brainscape 17, by Susan Aldworth, 2006, etching and aquatint, 30 x 25 cms. Private collection/Bridgeman Images Should death be ...
Artificial intelligence advances threaten privacy of health data
Study finds current laws and regulations do not safeguard individuals' confidential health information Advances in artificial intelligence have created new ...
Opioid use and misuse following treatment for head and neck cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer patients are often prescribed pain medications, for example during recovery from surgical procedures. ...
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