News
Should research results be shared with volunteers?
Medical student's summer bioethics research
published in PLoS.
April 11-14 — Dr. Silveira's hospice study
makes news
A new study that reveals disturbing gaps in the availability
of hospice care across the U.S. -
- both in terms of geographic distribution, and availability
in
less-wealthy, less-educated communities - - is making news this week. Maria Silveira,
M.D., MPH, General Medicine, led the study and presented the results Friday
at the Society for General Internal Medicine meeting in Pittsburgh.
Already, the study has been covered by the HealthDay newswire,
the Detroit
News, and Michigan
Radio. Read
the UMHS press release here.
February
20, 2008 - Good news on gray matter: Memory loss
and
other cognitive impairment becoming less common in older Americans, U-M study
finds
Better education,
finances & cardiovascular care may be
boosting brain health
Although
it’s too soon to sound the death knell for the “senior
moment,” it appears that memory loss and thinking problems are
becoming less common among older Americans. Scott
Kim, MD, PhD is a coauthor.
October 16, 2007 - Medical school departments and department heads often have industry
relationships, Mass
General/U-M study finds
First look at
extent of institutional relationships and potential consequences
A study led by members of the Massachusetts
General Hospital Institute for Health Policy and a University
of Michigan bioethicist, Susan
Dorr Goold,
MD, MHSA, MA has found that institutional academic-industry
relationships — financial relationships that companies have with
medical schools or teaching hospitals rather than with individual
physicians or scientists — are as common and pervasive as individual
relationships.
Their
report, the first nationwide look at the extent and impact of these
relationships, appears in the Oct. 17 issue of the Journal
of the American Medical Association.
June 27, 2007 - U-M bioethicist appointed to American Medical
Association’s Council on
Ethical and Judicial Affairs
Council maintains code
of ethics for American medicine,
and develops new
policies
On Saturday, Susan
Dorr Goold, M.D., MHSA, MA was named to
one of
the nation’s preeminent ethics panels: the Council on Ethical and
Judicial Affairs of the American Medical
Association. At the annual meeting of the AMA’s House
of Delegates, she was asked to serve by the
AMA’s new
president, Ronald M. Davis, M.D. and nominated by the American College of
Physicians.
Goold will be the
only trained bioethicist on the panel. The six
other members include leading physicians from many specialties, and two
physicians-in-training. Each serves a seven-year term.
Practicing
doctors, clinical affairs leaders, accrediting bodies, state boards, the
courts, media and the public all turn to the AMA’s Code of Medical
Ethics for guidance. The council maintains and updates the code, which
dates back 160 years, and issues opinions on new and evolving issues that
are then voted upon by the House of Delegates. The council also has
jurisdiction over the appeals that AMA member physicians can make to
rulings by state and specialty medical societies.
Medicalize me:
Experts look at how our
perceptions of
illness are shaped. Do
prescription drug ads make people think
they’re sick when they’re not, or create
“disease” out of thin air? Does the “empowered
patient” movement mean that doctors have lost some of their
professional clout when it comes to making
diagnoses and prescribing treatment? These questions and more are
the focus of a set of probing essays in a special section of
the Feb. 24 issue of the journal The Lancet, edited by Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D, all
addressing
the topic of “medicalization” and
what it means in modern society.
An article in the Detroit
Free Press, “Helpers sought for hospices: Groups fear volunteers will bear
brunt of workload,” on February 8, 2007 quotes Maria J. Silveira, MD,
MA, MPH.
A lesson in medical ethics: medical residents and
faculty pinpoint priorities in
ethics education. A study
by Drs. Goold and Stern asked residents what issues they confront, and
faculty, practicing physicians and other in-the-know professionals what
they think residents should learn.
Americans
love competition, but is it
pushing
our scientists too far? Scientists
normalize
scientific misbehavior, U-M
researcher
(Dr. De Vries) says.
Abstract
by Dr. Silveira et al wins award
for
Young Investigator of
the Year from the
American
Academy
of Hospice
and Palliative
Medicine.
U-M bioethicist receives
national honor:
Scott Kim, M.D., Ph.D., named Greenwall
Faculty Scholar in Bioethics
UMHS press
release (July
24 - Drs Flanders,
Pituch, Silveira in Modern
Healthcare).
Welcome
home! Two of our faculty returned
from stints as visiting scholars abroad. Susan Goold spent four months at
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Ray De Vries as an
Erasmus Mundus Scholar in Bioethics at Katholiek Universiteit,
Leuven (Belgium)
in Fall 2006.
Scientific misbehavior
may take place far more often than the misconduct that makes headline
news. Because scientific
misbehavior involves more mundane decisions and actions, it may be
easier for researchers to look the other way. Washington Post article
Breaking Bioethics at MSNBC
Ethics Matters
-a biweekly feature from the University of
Minnesota's Center
for Bioethics and CNN Interactive.
News,
blog and more at Bioethics.net
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