Tag Archives: Medical ethics

Fish Oil Could Prevent Psychotic Disorders

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Either you can eat fish as a dish three times a week. Or you may take fish oil supplements. Either way your chances of a full-blown psychotic episode will get diminished. The study group got assessed...

Scientists Can Use Lasers To Burn Away Mental Illness

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A huge leap has been made in the battle against a number of mental illnesses. Scientists are now able to use lasers to help burn away the parts of the brain that are affected by the illness. Now this...

Oscar Pistorius Trial is Set To Resume On Monday

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The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will continue on Monday after one month break in which mental health experts were ordered to take the time to evaluated the athlete to determine if he has an...

Re-Engineering Healthcare To Eliminate Preventable Deaths

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Joe Kiani is a busy man.  As the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Masimo Corporation, a global medical device manufacturer, Kiani has been a leader in patient safety and healthcare innovation for...

Health Technology Brings Care Plans Alive

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By Andy Oram Challenges and hackathons are meant to surprise you. If the winner is a known leader in the field with lists of familiar credentials festooning the team’s resumes, there was no point to...

FDA OKs mental disability blood test for infants

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FDA approves novel genetic test that screens infants for predictors of mental handicaps WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday cleared a first-of-a-kind blood test...
    






Terri Schiavo Implicitly Affirms Life Support for Jahi McMath

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The 1990s and 2000’s were a time when the Terri Schiavo case got a lot of media publicity. Both sides were armed for and against euthanasia. The topic of mercy killing is not easy to resolve...
    






In Speaking About Healthcare, We’ve Forgotten Patient Satisfaction: How To Treat Hospital Patients Like Valued Customers

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Patient satisfaction – customer service, really – in hospitals and healthcare: It’s time for the industry to raise the bar—and it needs to get a move on. Even though the goal of customer satisfaction...
    






Amazon working practices increases risk of mental and physical illness, says report

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It seemed like a perfect plan. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has launched an investigation on Amazon's warehouse in U.K. The idea was to secretly film the area in hopes of finding out...

Facebook Organ Donation Tool Greatly Increases Donor Registration

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Yesterday Facebook rolled out a new tool for members to use that allows them to know if they are organ donors. This tool was being teased with the exclusive from ABC News. People on organ donor lists...