Tag Archive | Ethics
LabBook February 22, 2013
Futuristic supply rooms, off label chemotherapy and more in this week’s special Move Day edition of LabBook
Questions about accommodating the religious beliefs of a patient? There’s an app for that
Elsevier, the publisher of scholarly and medical journals, has produced an app for the iPhone and iPad called “Care of Muslim Patients – A Practical Guide.” It’s a reference guide to help doctors accommodate Islamic beliefs and cultural practices, such as advising patients who are fasting during Ramadan. Aasim Padela, MD, who is Director of […]
Year in Review: UChicago Research 2012
Another year is almost in the books, and we’ve had another year of amazing research at the University of Chicago. Science Life like to thank all the physicians and scientists who shared their work, as well as all of the writers who contributed to the blog this year. We also want to extend special thanks […]
LabBook November 16, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
Presidential Commission on Bioethics Tackles Research on Children
National leaders in medicine, law, public health and disease control gathered Nov. 5, 6, at the University of Chicago Divinity School to participate in a two-day meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to examine the numerous and complex issues surrounding medical research involving children. A central issue before the commission […]
Fairness and Efficiency: Designing a Better Kidney Allocation System
Each year approximately 11,000 people receive kidney transplants from deceased donors, but nearly 100,000 people are on the waiting list for a deceased donor kidney. This means that people with end-stage renal disease who desperately need a new kidney can spend years on dialysis, waiting for a transplant. For the past seven years, the United […]
When Geography Trumps Need in Lung Transplants
Few people realize the important role that math plays in organ transplants. Complex formulas convert medical information about each patient, including diagnosis, age, and test results, into a single “allocation score” that determines who has priority when an organ becomes available. One factor not included in these calculators is proximity of the organ to a […]
Professionalism and Ethics, Day Two: Prize and Prejudice
Even in the court of ethics and medical professionalism, there’s nothing wrong with the occasional honor or award. On day two of the conference, the Maclean Center awarded its first Prize in Clinical Ethics and Health Outcomes – at $50,000, the largest such prize in the ethics field – to John Wennberg, the Peggy Y. […]
The Many Faces of Medical Professionalism
Every patient wants their doctor to be a professional. But the broader concept of “medical professionalism” is not a cut-and-dry matter, as it opens the door to debates over how physicians interact with politics and society, the regulation of doctors’ ethical and legal behavior, and the role of the physician in the new world of […]
