Awareness Should Be Raised Among Doctors

Should the CD4 threshold for starting ART be raised?

Upper age limit should be raised for cancer screening

Caroline White, London 204, 64, 207, 105 Current age bands for cancer screening in the United Kingdom seem to have been arbitrarily selected and are not based on rational criteria, according to researchers from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. The age band is critical to evaluating the effectiveness of screening programmes and for identifying priorities in screening polic...

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

David Oliver: What should senior doctors be paid?

The English health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, claimed in his “25 year vision” that the average wage for a hospital consultant was £118 000 (€167 000; $184 000) a year, putting us in “the top 2% income bracket.” This made for a good soundbite, but Hunt’s speech was heavy with spin to sell changes in the consultant contract. Portraying doctors as overpaid, lazy, or Luddite plays to certain sections ...

Should Doctors Be More Careful with Social Media?

ing blur in the boundaries that constitute the physician-patient relationship. Patients are an inherently vulnerable and dependant group and respect must be given to this situation. It is clearly ethically inexcusable to violate this relationship for personal gain over the well-being of the patient; either in the real, or virtual worlds. However, at what point does interaction between a patient...