Parents of babies born severely premature or with serious abnormalities are turning to the courts in a bid to override medical opinion to commence or continue life-sustaining treatment for their infants…
Tont-Filippini’s claims could arose fears in the community and prompt people to reject organ donation.
Melvin Es
In his new book, Catholic bioethicist Nicholas Tonti-Filippini attempts to portray the surgeons involved in organ donation as modern-day grave robbers.
As described in a recent article in The Age, Professor…
Health-care workers who discover they are infected have an ethical obligation to seek professional advice about their work practise limitations.
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A drug-addicted Melbourne anaesthetist has been accused of infecting 56 of his patients with hepatitis C by injecting himself with opiate-filled syringes, before using them on his patients. While his gross…
Post-marketing studies are often used as ploys to get doctors in the habit of prescribing expensive new medicines.
Flickr / Nestle
New medicines are often marketed on the basis of clinical trials of limited size and duration. So clinical studies of a medicine after it has reached the market (post-marketing studies) can be a useful…
Encouraging GPs to “on-sell” products to patients is likely to produce unnecessary or inappropriate prescribing.
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Swisse Vitamins Pty Ltd has been in the news recently over their Federal Court action to suppress a determination of the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Complaint Resolution Panel (CRP) about a number of…
A fundamental change in the relationship between industry and medical professionals is needed.
flickr/buddawiggi
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
The obligation to tell patients about medical mistakes is clear but we don’t know whether it’s complied with.
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By Bill Madden, University of Western Sydney and Tina Cockburn, Queensland University of Technology
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
Conflict of interest management depends on the existence of a critical culture that recognises the issues.
Waldo Jaquith
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
New therapies that haven’t yet been clinically proven may still be used ethically under certain circumstances.
Juraj Kubica
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
Small branded gifts have the potential to influence doctors.
Toshiyuki IMAI/Flickr
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – A series examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals to the role of Big Pharma in our present and future health…
Financial interests are eroding the trust between doctors and the community.
Brooks Elliott
TRANSPARENCY AND MEDICINE – Welcome to a new series in which we’ll showcase an array of articles examining issues from ethics to the evidence in evidence-based medicine, the influence of medical journals…
