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Doctors report that they’re not always completely honest with patients, especially when it comes to disclosing a medical mistake, or discussing a difficult prognosis.
Investigate IVF clinics? Will there be a debate over Medicare’s future? Is Obama’s ruling on contraception an attack on religion? School-based health centers: a nonpartisan solution?
Articles on: Conflict of interest on FDA panels. Radiology residents charged with cheating. Why dentists oppose allowing mid-level dental practitioners provide care in rural and other underserved areas.
A major medical group issued ethical guidelines that take the provocative position of urging doctors to consider cost-effectiveness when deciding how to treat their patients.
How doctors die (Hint: Not like the rest of us). Can vaccines end cancer? Newt Gingrich’s health-care heresies. Should your doctor take money from drug companies? — This week’s top stories.
The use of animals in medical research is justified provided that the research is worthwhile and that animals are treated humanely, noted animal psychologist Temple Grandin argues.
How does biological science relate to society? Join your neighbors in new community discussion series that starts tonight, Oct. 18th The events, organized by the Northwest Association for Biomedical Research, are free and open all.
Of those who received prescriptions, 72 have died — 51 after taking the medications. Of those who died most had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
A new book details how doctors are under constant pressure to ration their patients’ care in order to please lawmakers, lawyers and insurance companies.
Seattle Times reporters Sandi Doughton and Kristi Heim ask whether Gates Foundation’s funding of journalists–to the tune of $50 million to date–is tainting media coverage of global health issues. KPLU’s global health blogger Tom Paulson has been asking the same questions.
Ongoing disclosures reveal drug manufacturers have paid out $390 million to doctors since 2009.
With so much money paid to physicians — typically in exchange for public speaking events or professional education seminars for other doctors — medical ethics experts say doctors essentially push drugs or medical devices developed by the drug makers from which they are accepting cash.
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