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Medical Alert: Alarming Challenges Facing Medical Technology Innovation, Lawrence M. Sung
Medical Alert: Alarming Challenges Facing Medical Technology Innovation, Lawrence M. Sung
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How (Not) To Regulate Arts: Lessons From Octomom, Radhika Rao
How (Not) To Regulate Arts: Lessons From Octomom, Radhika Rao
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The Money Blind: How To Stop Industry Bias In Biomedical Science, Without Violating The First Amendment, Christopher Robertson
The Money Blind: How To Stop Industry Bias In Biomedical Science, Without Violating The First Amendment, Christopher Robertson
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The pharmaceutical and medical device industries use billions of dollars to support the biomedical science that physicians, regulators, and patients use to make healthcare decisions—the decisions that drive an increasingly large portion of the American economy. Compelling evidence suggests that this industry money buys favorable results, biasing the outcomes of scientific research. Current efforts to manage the problem, including disclosure mandates and peer reviews, are ineffective. A blinding mechanism, operating through an intermediary such as the National Institutes of Health, could instead be developed to allow industry support of science without allowing undue influence. If the editors of biomedical journals …
The Potential Of Shared Decision Making To Reduce Health Disparities, Jaime S. King, Mark H. Eckman, Benjamin W. Moulton
The Potential Of Shared Decision Making To Reduce Health Disparities, Jaime S. King, Mark H. Eckman, Benjamin W. Moulton
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Voluntarily Stopping Eating And Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option At The End Of Life, Thaddeus Mason Pope
Voluntarily Stopping Eating And Drinking: A Legal Treatment Option At The End Of Life, Thaddeus Mason Pope
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Despite the growing sophistication of palliative medicine, many individuals continue to suffer at the end of life. It is well settled that patients, suffering or not, have the right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment (such as dialysis or a ventilator) through contemporaneous instructions, through an advance directive, or through a substitute decision maker. But many ill patients, including a large and growing population with advanced dementia who are not dependent upon life-sustaining medical treatment, do not have this option. They have the same rights, but there is simply no life-sustaining medical treatment to refuse.
Nevertheless, these patients have another right, …