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January 01, 2008
Sixty thousand people in the United States are supposed to die this year because they did not receive a kidney allograft. Worldwide, the number could exceed 1 million; In India itself the number of people developing end stage renal disease each year is about 100,000. But with such prohibitive pol...
January 01, 2008
On May 8, 2007, 68 children from the Indira Nagar slums of Nagpur were admitted to hospital with complaints of nausea, vomiting, headache and abdominal pain. All had received oral doses of vitamin A the day before during a mass nutritional campaign organised by the state government, the Nagpur Mu...
October 01, 2007
Several of the investigators who participated in the Narangwal studies during the 1960s and 1970s were recently made aware of the case study, "Ethics in nutrition intervention research" published in the April-June 2007 issue of your journal along with responses from four reviewers. Although the c...
July 01, 2007
Kidney transplantation is generally considered the treatment of choice for end-stage renal patients who require renal replacement therapy. Renal transplantation from deceased donors is the most ethical and preferred method of kidney transplantation for treating end-stage renal failure. However, a...
July 01, 2007
A recent case in which a patient died after a heart attack and kidney failure at Hiranandani Hospital in Powai, Mumbai, has raised several ethical issues. The patient was in the hospital for one month. The bill came to Rs 7.3 lakh. When he died, the hospital refused to hand over the body to the f...
April 01, 2007
The medical curriculum in India is designed to give comprehensive knowledge of health care delivery with an emphasis on public health. Textbooks form the backbone of its courses and exams at the end of the course are the mode of testing the knowledge acquired
April 01, 2007
From August 7 to 10, 2006, Surat faced an unprecedented flood. Armed with previous experience, the state authorities rushed rescue teams to the city on August 7 itself, though many of them could enter the city only after the flood waters receded. When compared with disasters in the past, the resp...
April 01, 2007
Human beings seem to value choice -- a house of one's own choice, chosen friends, clothes of one's choice, and so on. Many people, fed on choices, believe they should also be allowed to choose the sex of their child. In the past, this was done by killing the newborn baby girl. While this practice...
April 01, 2007
Efforts to improve research ethics may not succeed in the absence of ethics in clinical care. This is especially true in developing countries, where it is difficult to access routine health care. The gap between ethics in research and in clinical care may result in the poor implementation of ethi...
January 01, 2007
The article by Amita Pitre in the July-September 2006 issue of IJME is topical. Two recent events, the conviction of the accused in the Priyadarshini Mattoo case, and the passing by Parliament of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, have also focused on the issue of violence ...