The Science and Ethics of Antipsychotic Use in Children reviews the latest findings for the safety and efficacy of the rapidly rising incidence of antipsychotic use in children and examines tensions that are created by off-label use, both in clinical psychiatric practice and research.
Blogs and Tweets, Texting and Friending: Social Media and Online Professionalism in Health Care summarizes the most common mistakes - and their legal and ethical ramifications -made in social media by busy health care professionals.
How does a patient with sensory disability - such as a hearing or vision impairment, or both - get effective communication from a health care provider?
Health Care Ethics is a comprehensive study of significant issues affecting health care and the ethics of health care from the perspective of Catholic theology.
El presente material surge como respuesta a una necesidad creciente de capacitación continua del recurso humano que a diario se enfrenta a situaciones clínicas, en el ámbito obstétrico, que implican la toma de decisiones oportuna, con el propósito de generar intervenciones efectivas, capaces de alterar el mal curso de una urgencia obstétrica.
Heated debates are not unusual when confronting tough medical issues where it seems that moral and religious perspectives often erupt in conflict with philosophical or political positions.
According to a recent Institute of Medicine report, as many as 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errora figure higher than deaths from automobile accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.
Modern psychological and political theory meet head-on in this powerful re-evaluation of America's contradictory and sometimes dangerous addiction to individualism.
As prenatal tests proliferate, the medical and broader communities perceive that such testing is a logical extension of good prenatal careit helps parents have healthy babies.
Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.
Estos resúmenes de citas conforman un hermoso testimonio de los alumnos y las alumnas de primer año de Medicina, que refleja la visión que ellos tienen de su futura profesión, dan cuenta de una perspectiva humanista, integral, de análisis crítico de la situación actual de salud y de gran entusiasmo en contribuir a un sistema de salud más justo.
What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy?
A pesar de los notables progresos que han surgido en el área de la diabetes, paradójicamente, la enfermedad y sus complicaciones se encuentran dentro de las primeras causas de morbimortalidad en muchos países del mundo.
Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies.
Since the 1970s health care costs in the United States have doubled, insurance premiums have far outpaced inflation, and the numbers of the uninsured and underinsured are increasing at an alarming rate.
La medicina, el antiguo y noble arte de curar, cuyos poderes la ciencia moderna parece haber ampliado más allá de todo límite, se ha convertido en el siglo XXI en un enorme negocio con incalculables márgenes de beneficio, en el que los riesgos corren a cuenta, casi por entero, de quienes necesitan su atención: los pacientes.
Arsenic contamination in drinking water and crops is a major health issue in many countries worldwide, threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic's toxicity and carcinogenicity.
Arsenic contamination in drinking water and crops is a major health issue in many countries worldwide, threatening the health of millions of people due to arsenic's toxicity and carcinogenicity.
Diana Patricia Díazencontró una manera original de narrar la historia de la medicina, la maravillosa historia de abnegación y perseverancia de los pioneros: el cuento.
