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Organ Centers to Transplant Patients: Get a Covid Shot or Move Down on Waitlist

A growing numbers of transplant programs have chosen to either bar patients who refuse to take the widely available covid vaccines from receiving transplants, or give them lower priority on crowded organ waitlists.

March 26, 2021 Biotechnology / Coronavirus / Ethics / Hospitals

Dying on the Waitlist

A key reason lifesaving ECMO is being rationed in the U.S. is a lack of regional coordination.

February 18, 2021 Coronavirus / Ethics / Healthcare Providers

Dying on the Waitlist

In Los Angeles County and around the country, doctors have had to decide who gets a lifesaving COVID-19 treatment and who doesn’t.

July 23, 2020 Ethics / Hospitals

How Should Hospitals Ask Patients for Donations?

Hospital fundraising provides critical resources, but a new study looks to ensure it’s done effectively and ethically.

A group of businesswomen in discussion around conference table.

June 11, 2020 Biotechnology / Drugs / Ethics

Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety

Medical supply companies with boards that included at least two women recalled life-threatening products almost a month sooner than those with all-male boards,

May 19, 2020 Coronavirus / Ethics / Public Health

Contact tracing does not require invasive hi-tech surveillance

While most discussions of contact tracing have focused on countries’ use of surveillance technology, contact tracing is actually a fairly manual process..

April 6, 2020 Coronavirus / Ethics / Sexually Transmitted Disease / Surgery

Cancer Surgeries and Organ Transplants Are Being Put Off for Coronavirus. Can They Wait?

The elective procedures being postponed because of coronavirus aren’t all optional, but cancer patients and organ recipients are being forced to wait.

March 31, 2020 Coronavirus / Ethics / Hospitals

States, Hospitals Grapple With Medical Rationing

Sometimes the question is not whether to provide care for a certain patient, but when to stop it so resources can be transferred to somebody else.

March 27, 2020 Coronavirus / Disabilities / Ethics

People With Intellectual Disabilities May Be Denied Lifesaving Care Under These Plans as Coronavirus Spreads

Disaster preparedness plans in Washington and Alabama say people with cognitive issues are a lower priority for lifesaving treatment.

March 25, 2020 Coronavirus / Disabilities / Ethics

Disability Groups in Washington State Object to Medical Rationing Plans

Disability rights groups that charge a healthcare rationing strategy being considered in Washington state “places the lives of disabled people at serious risk.”

March 24, 2020 Coronavirus / Drugs / Ethics

Doctors Hoarding Unproven Coronavirus Medicine by Writing Prescriptions for Themselves and Their Families

A nationwide shortage of two drugs touted as possible treatments for the coronavirus is being driven in part by doctors inappropriately prescribing the medicines for family, friends and themselves.

February 27, 2020 Coronavirus / Ethics / Healthcare Providers

Coronavirus: should frontline doctors and nurses get preferential treatment?

Should a health worker who contracted coronavirus while working on the front line of the health system get preferential treatment if care is being rationed?