The vows of the Hippocratic Oath which include a vow to abstain from sharing a patient’s personal information remains an important tenet of medical care today. Physician-patient confidentiality even abstains sharing information with patients’ families. However, when medical information affects the health of the patient’s relatives, many medical professionals assert that they have a duty to shar...

Professor Robertson sketches an elegant framework for policy evaluation and regulation of the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for various medical, medical related, and non-medical purposes. In criticism of his position, I argue that the distinction between policy and ethics upon which his argument relies is highly unstable, and the approach taken to ethical evaluation of particular par...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate and compare the application of different genetic programming (GP) based intelligent methodologies for the construction of rule-based systems in two medical domains: the diagnosis of aphasia's subtypes and the classification of pap-smear examinations. MATERIAL Past data representing (a) successful diagnosis of aphasia's subtypes from collaborating medical experts throu...

introduction: with increasing production of health information, information technologies have been used for better management and usage of such data. this enormous increase in gathering and storing of information and widespread accessibility also concerns individuals regarding privacy and security of information. this research is concerned with this issue due to decisions on establishing indivi...

down syndrome (ds) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. it is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after john langdon down who described ...

introduction: congenital anomalies are a common cause of disability and mortality in newborns and their treatments involves high costs for the society. this study aimed to investigate the prevalence of congenital anomalies and their causes. materials and methods: this research was a descriptive-analytical study and the population included all the newborns in hospitals of the city of ilam in 201...

Genetic services were set up in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, but only became widespread and formalised after the first Professor of Human Genetics, Trefor Jenkins, was installed at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1974. The first services involved chromosome studies, and these developed into genetic counselling services. Prenatal diagnosis began to be offered, particular...

Clinical medical practice and biomedical research utilize genetic information for specific purposes. Irrespective of the purpose of obtaining genetic material, methodologies for protecting the privacy of patients/donors in both clinical and research settings have not kept pace with rapid genetic advances. When the usage of genetic information is not predicated on the latest laws and policies, t...