Why people buy, trade, donate medications on the black market
'Seeing others suffer is too stressful'Credit: Charlie Ehlert, University of Utah Health Altruism and a lack of access and affordability ...
Tag: Medical/Scientific Ethics
Australian GPs widely offering placebos, new study finds
Active and inactive alternatives offered to patientsCredit: University of Sydney Most Australian GPs have used a placebo in practice at ...
Most physicians and other faculty in large medical center experienced sexual harassment
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 18, 2019--A new study has shown that the majority of ...
New transmission model for Ebola predicted Uganda cases
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A new risk assessment model for the transmission of Ebola accurately predicted its ...
Dartmouth engineers develop new way to know liars’ intent
Algorithm could bolster readers' interpretation of 'fake news'Credit: Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth HANOVER, N.H. - November 1, 2019 ...
Opioid-related gifts from pharma companies linked to physician prescribing by specialty
Credit: Hollander, et al, Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2019. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30, 2019 - Physicians who received gifts from ...
Testing HIV testers
Innovative Penn Nursing study employs a mystery shopper methodology to assess HIV testing services for young men who have sex ...
Society is rejecting facts; medical researchers can help
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University One study says coffee is good for you, while another study says that it's ...
Patients say ask before using medical records for research
Learning health care systems using electronic medical records for quality improvement and research should seek patient consentCredit: University of Michigan ...
Geriatrics experts on gender equity in health care: ‘When women rise, we all rise’
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society Putting power and potential behind gender equity in health care isn't just common sense. ...
CSHL press publishes ‘Conscience and Courage,’ the remarkable life story of Henri Termeer
Credit: With permission from Sanofi Genzyme Cold Spring Harbor, New York, October 1, 2019 -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press ...
Pitt scientists identify benefits, challenges to using film in public health research
Credit: Pitt Public Health PITTSBURGH, Sept. 25, 2019 - The research community is increasingly recognizing video as more than just ...
Moral distress and moral strength among clinicians in health care systems
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 23, 2019) - Nurse burnout impacts both nurses and patients, and significantly influences the retention ...
How to successfully recruit minority adolescents for STI/HIV prevention research
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 19, 2019) - Disparities in rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV between Black/African ...
Early palliative care for advanced lung cancer increases survival
VA study analyzed data on more than 23,000 veteransCredit: Michael Moody Early palliative care is associated with better survival in ...
Psychological support ‘not available’ to one in three cancer patients who need it
Findings from 10-country survey reveal lack of information and supportCredit: All.Can International London, 24 July 2019 - People with cancer ...
More heart attacks and strokes when cholesterol-lowering prescription rejected or unfilled
Credit: The FH Foundation Individuals at high risk for cardiovascular events, including those with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) or atherosclerotic heart ...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Rapidly spreading multidrug-resistant parasites render frontline malaria drug ineffective in southeast Asia
Preliminary data from multi-country randomised trial find that half of patients in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam not cured by first-line ...
Critical heart drug too pricey for some Medicare patients
Researchers say cost may be more than $1,600 after insurance payments An effective drug to treat chronic heart failure may ...
In the Global South less than one-third of high blood pressure patients treated
International research team with Göttingen and Heidelberg participation finds inadequate careCredit: Heidelberg University Healthcare in low- and middle-income countries is ...
