In addition to being an example of unsubstantiated hype about regenerative medicine, the controversy around the Italybased Stamina Foundation’s unproven stem cell therapy represents another chapter in a continuing debate about how to balance patients’ requests for early access to experimental medicines with requirements for demonstrating safety and effectiveness. Compassionate use of the Stamin...

This article presents findings from a study about compassionate care-the development of person knowledge in a medical ward caring for older people. Appreciative inquiry, an approach to research that focuses on discovering what works well and implementing strategies to help these aspects happen most of the time, was used. Staff, patients, and families participated in this study, which used a ran...

Previous work has underscored the robust links between sanctification of marriage and marital outcomes, and recent developments in the literature suggest that compassionate love, which is important for intimate relationships, may act as a mediator of that relationship. Accordingly, the current study used actor-partner interdependence models to examine the relationship between a spiritual cognit...

Hemşirelik ve hemşirelik bakımı, özen merhamet fikirleri üzerine kurulmuştur. Merhametli bakım, günümüzde hastanelerde bir kalite göstergesi olarak görülmekle birlikte hastaların memnuniyetini arttıran, herhangi maddi gideri olmayan, hastada olumlu yönde pek çok fizyolojik etkileri olan, hastalar yakınlarında yaşam kalitesini hastalarda yara iyileşmesi de dahil olmak üzere birçok hastalığın iyi...

Biomedical ethicists and clinical practitioners both champion the good of the patient, but sometimes their approaches diverge. The harmony of the ideal and the real is our utmost goal, but we often confront situations where theory falls apart in practice. A neonatal study performed by several noted institutions that is being audited by the US Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is a ca...