Nature Reports Stem Cells Aug 29, 2008
Oversight committees face tough decisions over whether cell lines have appropriate informed consent. South Korea has refused disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk request to resume work to make stem cells from cloned embryos. (Nature News Service)
Angioplasty Scoring System Predicts Risk of Death Aug 29, 2008
"This model may be useful in providing patients with individualized, evidence-based estimates of procedural risk as part of the informed consent process before PCI.". The study was published Aug. 27 in the inaugural issue of the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. (MEDLINEplus)
Research Ethics Committees identify and correct problems in applications to do cancer trials Aug 29, 2008
When reviewing applications to conduct cancer trials, the issue RECs are most likely to raise is that of informed consent. Committees are often concerned that the information that researchers propose to give patients may not be in language that can be easily understood. (EurekAlert!)
Obama OK'd Live Born Abortion Aug 26, 2008
He is promising to abolish requirements for parental notification and informed consent for mothers who consider the procedure. Politicians promises are often empty, but this one deserves to be taken seriously. (Newsmax)
Biopure Announces 2008 Third Quarter Financial Results Aug 22, 2008
The NMRC has proposed subsequently a similar protocol for military casualties in the field called Op RESUS with subjects who would sign an informed consent prospectively. The Company postponed the meeting we had planned to request for July 2008 with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the United Kingdom on the Company's pending application for marketing authorization for Hemopure. (PR Newswire)
Malpractice Claim Reinstated Against Norris McLaughlin in Matrimonial Case Aug 22, 2008
Peters' malpractice attorney, Montclair, N.J., solo Christina Thomas, says there was no informed consent, so collateral estoppel cannot apply. Neither the firm's lawyer, Morristown, N.J., solo William Voorhees Jr., nor Troyan's lawyer, Mark Tallmadge of Florham Park, N.J.'s Bressler, Amery & Ross, returned calls. (Law.com)
Coated ventilator tubes cut pneumonia risk Aug 20, 2008
But the tubes did not reduce death rates, and the findings were limited because many patients could not provide informed consent, reducing the size and overall power of the study, Dr. Jean Chastre of the Groupe Hospitalier Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, said in a commentary. Chastre said the findings suggest high-risk patients may benefit from the devices, but said more study is needed before they are recommended for all ventilator patients. (MSNBC -- Health)
Script Doctors Aug 20, 2008
Supporters of the state law that gives these marching orders, which went into effect in July , say it's about informed consent. Misinformed consent might be more like it. (Slate)
Abortion has risks, whatever the research says Aug 19, 2008
Failure to do so is a breach of the law requiring "informed consent". Without the "counselling" of being told the 00000A4A risks, it's illegal. (Times Online)
Oil And Gas Projects In Western Amazon Threaten Biodiversity And Indigenous Peoples Aug 15, 2008
"The way that oil development is being pursued in the Western Amazon is a gross violation of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the region" said Brian Keane of Land is Life, "International agreements and Inter-American human rights law recognize that indigenous peoples have rights to their lands, and explicitly prohibit the granting of concessions to exploit natural resources in their territories without their free, prior and informed consent.". The authors also detail the growing conflict... (Science Daily)
When is an organ donor really dead? Aug 15, 2008
But others argue the definition of death is flawed, and that more emphasis should be on informed consent and the chances of survival in cases of severe brain damage. Health Library. (CNN -- Health)
Quick harvest of infant hearts incites debate Aug 14, 2008
But others argue the definition of death is flawed, and that more emphasis should be on informed consent and the chances of survival in cases of severe brain damage. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- Health)
East Texans find success in stem cell treatments Aug 13, 2008
Under the policy for adult and embryonic stem cells, research can occur only on existing stem cell lines that were derived with the informed consent of the donors, from excess embryos created solely for reproductive purposes and without any financial payments to the donors, according to the National Institutes of Health ... With the informed consent of the donors. (News-Journal.com)
Gambled for child's life & lost Aug 10, 2008
The hospital insists that they have the parents' signature on all informed consent forms. "How can they say efforts were not made to explain the treatment. They were counselled separately," said a Jaslok official. (India Times, India)
The new cancer trial that offers hope to thousands Aug 10, 2008
They spell out clearly the low chance of success and the risks before seeking 'informed consent' in writing. Every drug is potentially toxic. (guardian.co.uk)
Shock therapy makes a quiet comeback Aug 7, 2008
Under the APAs guidelines, an anesthesiologist, a psychiatrist and a recovery nurse must be present during a treatment, and the treatment must be voluntary, unless the patient is unable to provide informed consent. Its not recommended for the very old, children or those with heart conditions. (MSNBC -- Health)
Terminal Cancer Patients Not Given Chemo Info Aug 5, 2008
As a result, British investigators say, patients may lack sufficient knowledge make a decision based on informed consent. Palliative chemotherapy is not intended to cure patients of cancer, only to make their lives more tolerable. (MEDLINEplus)
INSIDE CELEB BABY PHOTOS Aug 4, 2008
"A baby can't give informed consent," says Bruce Weinstein, a syndicated ethics columnist. He says celebs who "sell out" their babies can't argue that it's OK because the money is going to charity. (USA Today -- Life)
Cancer Patients Are Not Given Enough Information, Experts Say Aug 4, 2008
Palliative chemotherapy for patients with advanced cancer has modest survival benefits and there is an expectation in the UK that such patients should be given accurate information so they can give informed consent before starting chemotherapy. At the advanced stages of cancer, survival gain from palliative chemotherapy treatment tends to be months rather than years. (Science Daily)
House to Consider Abortion Anesthesia Bill Aug 3, 2008
"This is just a compassion piece of legislation to take informed consent to the level it should be at," said (R-Ga. an obstetrician and antiabortion conservative. (Yahoo News -- Abortion Rights Debate)
Proposed epileptic drug bill held to receive the consideration it deserves Aug 1, 2008
However, any policy that requires the informed consent of the patient and physician before the patient can be switched to a generic medication could have the unintended consequence of reducing the public's access to effective and low-cost medications. Requiring informed consent for substituting generic medication for name brand medication, no matter how serious the medical condition, sets a dangerous precedent. (Albany Times Union)
SA Muslim HIV test call condemned Jul 30, 2008
"It falls foul of a number of constitutional protections and will, if implemented, actually contravene our laws on informed consent and on voluntary disclosure," she said. "Making pre-marital testing compulsory and then disclosure to the cleric performing your wedding ceremony under Islamic law is not going to empower you," she added. (BBC News -- Health)
Review legal framework of Pesticide Law - Prof. Yeboah Jul 23, 2008
Participants would review the action plan for the implementation of the Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. Ghana signed the Rotterdam Convention on September 11, 1998 and ratified it on May 30, 2003. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
A virtual toothache helps student dentists Jul 22, 2008
The research project focuses on developing scenarios that aid and test students in taking patient histories, providing oral health education like tobacco cessation counseling for smokers, explaining procedures, talking about healthcare options and obtaining informed consent, and working through situations that present ethical dilemmas. These are among the competencies outlined by the American Dental Education Association. (EurekAlert!)
Tickets for Brand New Exhibition 'Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time' on Sale 18 July Jul 18, 2008
"I invented plastination when I was 32 years old - half a life ago - so that I could teach people about the human body and awaken them to its full potential. Now that I am in my 60s, it seemed a natural progression to use my science and to present, in Body Worlds, the secrets of vitality, longevity and well-being throughout our lives," said Dr. von Hagens Body Worlds is the only anatomical exhibition with an established body donation programme through which individuals grant informed consent... (PR Newswire)
As I See It: Give rape victims back their voices (July 10) Jul 16, 2008
Barefoot wrote on Jul 15, 2008 12:34 PM:" The gray areas are why we have judges. I would say (looking into this specific case further) having protesters walking around the courtroom didn't help her case.If someone does not have the ability to give "informed consent"- it is not consent. This includes persons who are drunk. I would say two people who are drunk in this situation make it even more gray (but it is "better" than if one person was drunk and the other person took advantage of the... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Ethicist helps make decisions on right and wrong Jul 8, 2008
Informed consent is an important issue to address. I try to help people understand the ethical and legal significance of informed consent. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
The cost-effectiveness of a new disease management model for frail elderly living in homes for the elderly, design of a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial Jul 8, 2008
All persons who are not terminally ill, are able to be interviewed and sign informed consent are included. For cognitively impaired persons family proxies will be approached to provide outcome information. (BioMed Central)
Olympia Nelson defends photo of her on Art Monthly cover Jul 7, 2008
Welcome to Herald Sun. July 07, 2008 12:22pm. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Who are they really for? Jul 5, 2008
That may not be the legal issue in the case of South Dakota's disputed "informed consent" law, but it certainly is the central question. The law, passed in 2005 and held hostage in the courts ever since by abortion supporters, simply requires abortionists to inform women in writing that the procedure "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.". (The Augusta Chronicle)
Beyond barbeques and fireworks Jul 4, 2008
For imposing Tax rebates and cuts on us without our informed Consent on surpluses, concealing impending deficits and pushing the reckoning or Social Security integrity to future Presidents and generations further. For depriving combatants in the "war on terrorism" in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury. (Los Angeles Times)
Citing District Judge's Actions During Trial, 3rd Circuit Vacates Med-Mal Verdict Jul 3, 2008
" Garth was joined by Circuit Judge Theodore A. McKee and Senior District Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez from the District of New Jersey. Bashman said Rodriguez is more of an "old school" judge who gives attorneys more leeway whereas Schiller has more of a "new school" approach of reining in attorneys. Paul and Allison Svindland sued, individually and on behalf of their late son Ian's estate, The Nemours Foundation in Delaware and William I. Norwood, a surgeon who performed heart repair surgery on... (Law.com)
Pro-Lifers Praise Ruling Allowing Statement on Abortion Jul 3, 2008
Casey Murschel, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota, voted against the South Dakota informed consent law as a state legislator. "We all agree that a woman considering abortion, like any patient, should receive from her doctor full and unbiased information about a range of medical options, but the law in question puts politicians into the examining room," Murschel said in a statement. (CNSnews.com)
South Dakota Now Forces Doctors To Lie About Abortion Jul 3, 2008
The statute purports to be about ensuring that patients give informed consent. Planned Parenthood characterizes it differently: as an intrusion on the doctor-patient relationship, forcing doctors to give inaccurate medical facts and to be the state's ideological mouthpiece. (Slate)
Opinion: Medical road trips not worth the cost Jul 1, 2008
In many countries, doctors are not big fans of informed consent, which could mean you might not be consulted about all the risks of a procedure or medication. In others, you may find yourself having to locate and pay for your own nursing and follow-up care, since these are not part of the hospital treatment package. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Battlelines drawn for WTO talks Jun 29, 2008
Taking prior informed consent of the community and benefit sharing with them is vital. More than 104 member countries of the WTOare pushing for these disclosure norms and for them to be discussed at the ministerial, the official said. (The Statesman)
The AAP gets tough on vaccine dissenters Jun 29, 2008
The organization will not talk about choice or informed consent, issues that should be raised with any medical procedure that carries a risk. Instead, the AAP suggests in a sample letter to pediatricians, that physicians tell parents who refuse to vaccinate that they have a "self-centered and unacceptable attitude" since your child is getting protection from others who have chosen to vaccinate. (Chicago Tribune)
Memorial Medical Center to take part in brain trauma study Jun 28, 2008
Because most patients will be unconscious when receiving emergency treatment, the doctrine of Exception from Informed Consent for Emergency Research will be used. Since this study could affect anyone living in the Johnstown region, a community meeting will be held about it at 6 p.m. July 2 at the John P. Murtha Neuroscience and Pain Institute, 1450 Scalp Avenue, Johnstown. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Pacemaker error hotspots hidden Jun 28, 2008
The director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Justin Oakley, said if patients were not told of differences between hospitals "there has been a failure in informed consent". The inquiry has been extended by four months after commissioner, Peter Garling, asked the Government for more time because of the huge amount of submissions he had received. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Solid-Organ Transplantation and Donor Risk Factors Jun 26, 2008
1 Although transmission of infectious agents through transplantation is rare,2 such cases raise important questions about how informed consent for transplantation should be obtained and about the type of resource that transplantable organs represent. Among the questions raised are the following: Should potential recipients be informed about the general risks associated with transplantation or those specifically associated with an identified organ. (New England Journal of Medicine)
Intimate Examinations Should Not Be Performed Without Consent, Editorial Argues Jun 24, 2008
The issue was highlighted earlier this year when Israeli medical students refused to intimately examine anaesthetised women without obtaining their informed consent. Yet despite these concerns, some specialists consider pelvic examinations to be an ordinary part of medical practice for which specific consent is not needed, say the authors, while others fear that requiring informed consent from the patient will radically reduce training opportunities for students ... But according to the authors,... (Science Daily)
Anti-Vaccine Activists vs. Gardasil Jun 24, 2008
Vaccinations should be voluntary, Fisher says, and be made with "informed consent" by parents. Dr. Kuhn agrees on that point. (Time.com)
Cognitive-behaviour therapy for patients with Abridged Somatization Disorder (SSI 4,6) in primary care: a randomized, controlled study Jun 23, 2008
Sample: N= 204 patients, (68 in each of the three groups), aged 18-65 years, able to understand and read Spanish, who fulfil Escobar's criteria of Abridgged Somatization Disorder (SSI 4,6), stable with pharmacotherapy over the previous month, and who will remain stable for the next 3 months in the doctor's opinion, having signed informed consent. Intervention: Control group: Standardized recommended treatment for somatization disorder in primary care (Smith's norms). (BioMed Central)
Phone companies off the hook on wiretapping Jun 21, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008. SF Chronicle Submissions. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
U.S. Navy Submits Protocol for Field Trauma Trial of Hemopure(R) Jun 19, 2008
The proposed trial hypotheses is that for such casualties Hemopure will improve survival and other clinical parameters, and will be relatively safe and well tolerated, in comparison with "standard fluid." Subjects will sign an informed consent prospectively. The study is entitled "Operational Restore Effective Survival in Shock (Op RESUS). Op RESUS is designed as a single-blinded, randomized and controlled trial with up to 340 evaluable subjects, including operational military and civilian... (PR Newswire)
What's Wrong With Selling Kidneys? Jun 16, 2008
Such a system would provide strict control and limit harm by allowing every candidate an opportunity for transplant, full donor evaluation, informed consent, long term health follow-up, with payment managed by the government or insurance companies, and the banning of any other commercialisation. We already compensate people for sperm, ova, surrogate motherhood, and loss of body parts in court cases without any loss of dignity or humanity. (Science Daily)
Discussing life expectancy with surgical patients: Do patients want to know and how should this information be delivered? Jun 16, 2008
Predicted patient life expectancy (LE) and survival probability (SP), based on a patient's medical history, are important components of surgical decision-making and informed consent. The objective of this study was to assess patients' interpretation of and desire to know information relating to LE, in addition to establishing the most effective format for discussion. (BioMed Central)
Picture this: society draws the line Jun 14, 2008
Goddard says the central concern about Henson's work has been sidetracked into the dead-end discussion about art versus pornography, when it is really about the protection of children and their developmental inability to give informed consent. "We are particularly concerned [by the suggestion] Mr Henson's photographs are in some way so special as to be above the question of consent," wrote Goddard. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
A one-dog man. Jun 14, 2008
He implies that human sex with animals would be OK if only the animals could offer their informed consent. He suggests further that animals with the minds of children are incapable of offering consent. (Slate)
More patients seek experimental stem cell therapy Jun 13, 2008
The guidelines, which will be finalized by year's end, advocate peer review for research, the informed consent of all patients involved in research, and scientific justification for the work. When finalized, the guidelines may help patients decide whether the treatment they seek meets professional standards. (Boston Globe)
Beta Blocker May Shrink Infant Hemangiomas Jun 13, 2008
"After informed consent was obtained from the parents, propranolol was given to nine additional patients who had severe or disfiguring infant hemangiomas. In all cases, 24 hours after the onset of treatment, we observed a change in color from intense red to purple, associated with a palpable softening of the lesion," she said. Results of the study were published as a letter in the June 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. (MEDLINEplus)
Sex and Senility Jun 13, 2008
Melinda Henneberger: Yes, I can see that informed consent really is a complicated issue. It's certainly unrealistic to think that every worker in such a facility would be a trained counselorespecially given the appalling overall conditions and low wages in a lot of these places. (Slate)
3 sequencing companies join 1000 Genomes Project Jun 12, 2008
The project will use samples from donors who have given informed consent for their DNA to be analyzed and placed in public databases. Most of these samples have already been collected, and any additional samples will come from specific populations. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
AP: Candidates Square Off Early in Race to Replace Hulshof Jun 11, 2008
It also called for women to be given the option of seeing an ultrasound of their fetus; to be instructed about potential health risks and that their fetus can be given anesthesia before the abortion; and to certify in writing that they have been provided the required materials and are voluntarily giving their informed consent to have an abortion. Onder cited a case in Washington, D.C. in which three paramedics were threatened with losing their jobs if they became pregnant, and statements by... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Ethical Implications Of Modifying Lethal Injection Protocols Jun 11, 2008
which provides protection for research participants by requiring institutional assurance of compliance with federal regulations, institutional review board (IRB) review, approval, and oversight, and informed consent of the participants. In Koniaris and Zimmers' analysis, none of the ten states undertaking regimens with prisoners being executed followed the Common Rule--for example, prisoners had not given consent to be experimented upon and institutional review boards had not approved the use of... (Science Daily)
An Affair To Remember Jun 11, 2008
Gerontologists highly recommend sex for the elderly because it improves mood and even overall physical function, but the legal issues are enormously complicated, as Daniel Engber explored in his 2007 article "": Can someone with dementia give informed consent. How do caregivers balance safety and privacy concerns. (Slate)
Alston Set to Settle Malpractice Suit Jun 10, 2008
"[T]he Court finds that the plaintiff has sufficiently pled a claim for legal malpractice against A&B for failure to obtain Friedman's informed consent to continue its representation as the investigation broadened and A&B's conflicts became more severe. ... it was part of A&B's duty of loyalty to Friedman's to inform it of material changes in the representation that might create new conflicts.". Specific among those alleged conflicts was the issue of Alston's continued representation of Stinn --... (Law.com)
Other side of Polanski case Jun 8, 2008
But that's hardly the point; even with images of sexualized teens spread through the culture, I can't imagine a 13-year-old giving informed consent ... But that's hardly the point; even with images of sexualized teens spread through the culture, I can't imagine a 13-year-old giving informed consent. (Akron Beacon Journal)
Guatemala dam will bring money, misery Jun 8, 2008
The Panamanian government faces legal charges in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for signing a contract with AES that denied the Ngobe people who inhabit the land, the right to "free, prior, and informed consent" regarding decisions about their land and future, a right recognized by the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. 36 villages to be flooded. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Specialized Care Jun 7, 2008
"Another did not maintain alien medical records on site. One facility's staff failed to obtain informed consent from the detainee when prescribing psychiatric medication. Finally, another facility did not have medical staff on site to screen detainees arriving after 5 p.m.". The GAO said it observed instances of noncompliance with ICE medical care standards at three of the 23 detention facilities visited. (Townhall.com)
Abitibi announces immediate withdrawal from Whiskey Jack Forest Jun 5, 2008
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples clearly establishes that resource extraction on Indigenous lands must have the free, prior and informed consent of the community ... Still, Brooks said they would continue to lobby for meaningful consultations with First Nations, which would include prior and informed consent by aboriginal communities, before decisions on development are made. (Daily Miner and News)
This is not porn, say Henson's models May 26, 2008
" While Henson made efforts to ensure that his young subjects and their parents were comfortable and informed, child advocates say no one can consent to such a practice. "It is clear from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child that parents do not have the right to make that decision on behalf of their children," the chief executive of Child Wise, Bernadette McMenamin, said. "And children, at the age of 12, 13 or 14, do not have the experience or the understanding to make an informed... (Sydney Morning Herald)
It's a smalls world May 24, 2008
As for the grown-ups disrobing, the academic and media commentator says that, provided there is informed consent from the participants, the practice has the potential to spread the message that there are many different kinds of beauty. "What concerns me is if women are made to fit a stereotype of beauty or if they feel that their appearance is the only thing that matters.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The MOTHERS Act: Thalidomide Revisited? May 24, 2008
One third of pregnant women in the US already take psychiatric drugs at some point during their pregnancies and most are never warned of the known risks for themselves, their unborn and nursing babies, depriving them of their right to informed consent. In 1960, Frances O. Kelsey of the FDA blocked an application by the Richardson-Merrell Corporation of Cincinnati to market thalidomide. (PR Newswire)
FATHERS NOT REQUIRED! May 21, 2008
They also want to introduce a five-day period of 'informed consent', during which women wanting a termination would be advised to reflect on their decision. Pro-choice MPs, by contrast, are seeking to liberalise abortion laws with rival amendments. (The Drudge Report)
