Hospitals and Healthcare

Doctor Morgan Eutermoser is confronted every day with overflowing waiting rooms, and like many American doctors, she is finding Omicron the most challenging wave of the pandemic yet.

As the coronavirus pandemic puts pressure on Australia's healthcare system, medical professionals turn to ethicists to develop a framework for prioritising patients and resources.

Just 16 of the boys who were infected during the trial are still alive.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to help a neighbor who has become increasingly forgetful, befriending a homeless man in Tel Aviv and more.

Doctor communication is an important part of their education. But they can't have unlimited empathy for their patients either, or they'd never get the job done.

Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make.

Victims include imprisoned followers of Falun Gong movement, China Tribunal says

SteriDev, a Lansing, Michigan firm, is releasing the first device-specific sterile mobile device coverings. The CleanCase coverings are FDA-compliant and allow surgeons, technicians, and other clinical staff to use smartphones and tablets even in the operating room (OR).

These days, it can be quite a hassle to bring a smartphone in the OR, making it difficult to document and share details about a procedure, take quick notes about something, or simply to photograph a clinical curiosity.

If we want My Health Record data to be made available for medical research we need to make it opt in, not opt out. We'll have a smaller dataset, but at least it will be ethically defensible.