Blood components should be labeled for content

Blood components should be labeled for content.

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

Gleason score 6 adenocarcinoma: should it be labeled as cancer?

Overtreatment of low-grade prostate cancer (Gleason score 6) is a recognized problem today, with systematic prostate gland sampling triggered by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) measurements. The extent to which overtreatment is caused by fear of death resulting from cancer, fear of litigation from undertreatment, and misaligned incentives that reimburse more for treating rather than monitoring ...

Who should be taking the blood pressure?

Given the variability of blood pressure, it is often difficult to make a diagnosis of hypertension or to evaluate the effect of treatment on the basis of single blood pressure readings in the office. To obtain multiple measurements one can either turn to ambulatory blood pressure monitoring or have the patient take his or her own pressure. Both approaches require the availability of reliable, v...

Should blood be an essential medicine?

199 The medical team members may be frustrated or believe they’ve exhausted the workup studies, and they may prefer not to order any more. They may not be too keen on continuing the same antibiotics. The ICU team hungers for something new and preferably simple. As I review the differential diagnosis, with dis­ claimers as to why any given di­ agnosis does or does not ade­ quately explain the fe...