Inadequate information is available on how newborn babies and infants handle drugs, due to a large extent to the many ethical, financial and practical issues which discourage drug trials in neonates. The reluctance of drug companies to license neonatal drugs has been highlighted recently in the media. Such reticence is not surprising as the commonly used drugs in neonates have been around for a...

Congenital heart defects take an important place in fetal pathology, due to their highest death percentage reported by WHO (World Health Organisation). The ethical issues that obstetricians deal with in case of an isolated fetal heart abnormality are multiple. The obstetrician is most of the time overwhelmed by the real possibility of making a fetal or neonatal prognosis. The lack of complete a...

sareshtedari m 1 (md) , shahamat h 1 (md) , sadeghi t 2 * (msc)       1 department of pediatrics, school of medicine, qazvin university of medical sciences, qazvin, iran   2 department of pediatrics, school of nursing and midwifery, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran     received: 22 jan 2011, accepted: 23 jun 2011       abstract     introduction: regarding the importance of me...

Universal antenatal screening for T. pallidum is standard in Irish maternity units. The prevalence of adult syphilis has increased in Ireland. We audited the neonatal management of infants exposed to T. pallidum in utero. A cross sectional retrospective analysis of all pregnancies with confirmed positive serology for T. pallidum from January 2005 to December 2010 was conducted at the National M...

Background: Advances in medical technology have had major impacts on human reproduction. The development of effective contraceptive methods has reduced unwanted fertility, and the development of a variety of drugs and procedures has, for the first time, permitted women with fertility problems to reasonably expect that they can fulfill their desires to have children. So, The aim of this review a...

Article history: Received 21 March 2011 Revised 28 February 2012 Accepted 5 March 2012 Available online 26 March 2012 The purpose of this paper is (1) to identify critical issues in the current literature on ethical leadership — i.e., the conceptual vagueness of the construct itself and the focus on a Western-based perspective; and (2) to address these issues and recent calls for more collabora...

The post-genomic era is witnessing a proliferation of large-scale and population based genetic and genomic research projects. Many countries have or are establishing research biobanks and, as with GenomEUtwin, there is great interest in building multinational projects that link genotypic and phenotypic information from different centers. Clearly, the conduct of these projects raises multiple et...

T he Joint Commission (2008) stated, “Intimidating and disruptive behaviors can foster medical errors, contribute to poor patient satisfaction and to preventable adverse outcomes, increase the cost of care, and cause qualified clinicians, administrators and managers to seek new positions in more professional environments” (p. 1). With the new Medicare reimbursement mechanisms for hospitals, the...

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PURPOSE OF REVIEW The study gives an overview of ethical questions raised by the progress of neuroscience in identifying and intervening in neural correlates of the mind. RECENT FINDINGS Ethical problems resulting from brain research have induced the emergence of a new discipline termed neuroethics. Critical questions concern issues, such as prediction of disease, psychopharmacological enhanc...