Medical editors urged to accept ethical code

Openness to Accept Medical Technology - A Cultural View

Technology acceptance is a widely acknowledged key player in explaining technology adoption. However, there is a notable knowledge gap concerning the impact of cultural factors on technology acceptance, especially in the medical sector. It is evident though that countries differ greatly regarding their technical proneness, development and usage habits what should have considerable impact on acc...

Fast action urged to halt deadly TB.

News Fast action urged to halt deadly TB Technology holds the key to many of the challenges presented by a particularly virulent form of tuberculosis that broke out in South Africa last year. Countries across the region are making progress in keeping the threat at bay, but not fast enough. Woman and child infected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis receiving treatment at the Brooklyn Chest H...

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A Local Committee Urged to Continue

to the hospitals in their districts in return for the hospital service rendered to their employees, as many large firms are in the habit of doing. It was decided to ask the Ministry of Health to make this suggestion to the Corporations. Many Lancashire hospitals were found to be asking non-contributing patients to pay from 6s. a day downwards, and an hospital of seventy beds has received ?2,000...

Medical humanities: an aid to ethical discussions.

'The ethical landscape', the title given to part of a course devised by Mr. Moore, is described in full in this paper. The whole course is a new adventure in medical education designed to help students to explore the ethical problems in the practice of medicine. The 'ethical landscape' is seen through discussion based on passages from literature depicting doctors' and patients' dilemmas. As the...