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It runs like an uneasy theme in the ethics of health care provision. How do we respond to the genuine health needs of individuals who do not have legal rights of residency and are unable to pay privately for their own health care? What obligations, if any, do we have to sick people who are here without legal status?

The publication of Gilbey’s paper and my editorial in the New Zealand Medical Journal (NZMJ) led to a threat of legal action by the NZ Chiropractors’ Association Inc for alleged defamation.  After publishing a defiant editorial, the editor of the NZMJ offered chiropractors the chance to put their case.

Is freedom of conscience at risk? September 4th, 2008 The Bush Administration has proposed a rule that would deny federal funding to medical facilities that discriminate against employees who choose not to provide services they deem to be morally wrong—such as performing abortions or making abortion referrals.

Best way to sell drugs is to talk to your doctor Posted by Dana Blankenhorn @ 11:49 am Categories: General, Medical Equipment, Consumer Information, Ethics, Finance, Research, Drugs Tags: Advertisement, Enbrel, Dana Blankenhorn Detail men, those road warriors who push pharmaceutical samples through your favorite doctor’s waiting room, are still the best sales resource drug companies have.

LABOR MPs will get a conscience vote on a controversial push to scrap Medicare funding for abortions in Australia for women who are more than 14 weeks pregnant. [link] The ALP’s national executive committee has confirmed it will recommend that Labor MPs and senators be offered a conscience vote on a disallowance motion pushing for a ban on taxpayer-funding for mid-term and late-term abortions.

With tony simulation devices for graduate and postgraduate training, well-endowed university medical centers can afford to snub commercial support of traditionally produced CME. This is the cat-bird seat specifically for Stanford University, which (as of yesterday) prohibits industry funding of any

Should Medical Journals Inform Readers if a Book Reviewer can’t be Objective? At the end of last week’s post I suggested that book reviewer Donald Abrams and the New England Journal of Medicine had withheld information useful for evaluating Abrams’ review: that he is the Secretary/Treasurer of the

Research using cell therapies which do not destroy human embryos continues to show much promise with news of three recent developments. According to the National Geographic magazine, Japanese researchers say dental pulp from wisdom teeth could be a new source of stem cells.

I noticed that Dr. Alan Rubin’s recent Guest Post here at The Mine stirred up some heated discussion over conflict of interest (COI) — an issue that seems to lurk behind every corner in the business of health and medicine.

THREATS TO SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE The theme of this blog is science-based medicine. It’s even the name given the blog by our fearless leader, Steve Novella. By “science-based” medicine we generally mean medicine that is both grounded in scientific plausibility based on our best understanding of