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Doctors And Nurses Complicit In CIA Torture, Alleges Report By Institute Of Medicine And Open Society Foundations

Staff Writer | The Telegraph | November 4, 2013

DOCTOR and nurses tasked with monitoring the health of terror suspects were complicit in abuses committed at prisons run by the Pentagon and the CIA, an independent report has alleged. Read More »

Free Drug Samples Prompt Skin Doctors To Prescribe Costlier Meds

Michaeleen Doucleff | Natinoal Public Radio | April 16, 2014

Dermatologists who accept free tubes and bottles of brand-name drugs are likelier to prescribe expensive medications for acne than doctors who are prohibited from taking samples, a study reports Wednesday.  The difference isn't chump change.

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Panel: U.S. Doctors Violated Medical, Ethical Standards In Detention Facilities

Clara Ritger | National Journal | November 4, 2013

U.S. military and intelligence agencies improperly required doctors and health professionals to participate in "cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment and torture of detainees," an independent panel has found. Read More »

Some U.S. Hospitals Weigh Withholding Care To Ebola Patients

Julie Steenhuysen and Sharon Begley | Reuters | October 22, 2014

The Ebola crisis is forcing the American healthcare system to consider the previously unthinkable: withholding some medical interventions because they are too dangerous to doctors and nurses and unlikely to help a patient.  U.S. hospitals have over the years come under criticism for undertaking measures that prolong dying rather than improve patients' quality of life...

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Why an Obscure Indian Journal Has an Impressive — and Growing — International Stature

Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus | STAT | September 9, 2016

Earlier this year a Canadian medical ethicist published a doozy of an essay1 claiming that the heavyweight New England Journal of Medicine was poorly vetting its authors and publishing shoddy studies. The piece drew lots of attention for those allegations. But what went unremarked, though perhaps just as notable, is the place where they appeared: The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (IJME). The IJME isn’t on anyone’s list of most desirable places to publish...But for a relatively unknown and ostensibly local title...it has an impressive list of staff and contributors, and has been earning plaudits from the science community lately.

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