Many physicians would personally prefer to avoid life-sustaining practices if they had advanced cancer or Alzheimer disease.

Usually, when a patient is declared brain-dead, their family is allowed a few hours or days to say their goodbyes before ...

Palliative care can serve as an intervention to manage chronic illness, not just at the end of life but also in the early phases of illness. ... Ethics and dissemination For purposes of privacy and ...

The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), a framework introduced for providing comfortable care at the last stage of life, has recently become highly contentious. Among the most serious ...

The Dauphin County Prison Board recommended two companies to provide medical services at the county jail, despite years of criticism of one company and a board member’s perceived conflict of interest ...

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I tested 35 popular K-beauty skincare products from 11 different brands to bring you the best of the best. If you have been following skincare trends recently, then you know that Korean skincare -- or ...

Care ethics can help us think through how to become better and more caring friends, children, parents, partners, co-workers, citizens, fellow humans, fellow creatures of our planet, etc. Alongside ...

Thomas Plante (@ThomasPlante) Augustin Cardinal Bea, SJ professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, is a faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and an adjunct clinical ...

A new article in the Journal of the American Medical Association said the FDA will implement AI into multiple processes.

Objectives To determine the extent and nature of changes in utilisation of healthcare services during COVID-19 pandemic. Design Systematic review. Eligibility Eligible studies compared utilisation of ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2007;41(7):1264-1267. It is clear from this one example that the concept of the role of the pharmacist changed during the ensuing 4 decades. Indeed, it is ...