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One fortunate change in 25 years is that medical ethics has entered the mainstream of discussion and debate, but increased visibility can have unfortunate drawbacks, as well.
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[Editor's note: With this month's issue of Medical Ethics Advisor, we mark 25 years of efforts to bring you the most up-to-date research and news in the ethics arena of health care. Going forward, we hope to continue this tradition, and we invite you, the readers, to share your own ideas and experiences with our editorial advisory board and editor.]
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To many who observe the organ transplant arena, it's both a simple and yet complex reckoning of supply and demand.
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While it is illegal for an individual to sell his or her organs to transplant recipients in the United States and in most other countries, experts indicate the selling of organs is widespread in certain developing countries.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early December 2009 its final decision to cover Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection screening for Medicare beneficiaries who are at increased risk for the infection.
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As Medical Ethics Advisor reported in December, one of the sessions held at the annual conference in Washington, DC, of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities in October was on the top developments in bioethics in 2009.
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Compassion & Choices, an end-of-life rights group, says that it is "alarmed" by a newly revised Ethical and Religious Directive approved in November by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Monir Moniruzzaman has seen the kind of poverty that would drive a desperate individual to sell his or her organ.
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A news analysis published in CANCER found that black patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver cancer, have worse survival than patients of other races, even after receiving comparable treatments.
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From a grassroots organization's efforts to make medical error disclosure and apology part of the U.S. health culture to more hospitals and other health care players are beginning to be aware of apology, and it would appear that more organizations agree that offering an institutional "I'm sorry" is the right thing to do.