The right to choose. Cesarean sections are on the rise again. Public-health officials want to limit them, but many patients and doctors are resisting.
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Adult↗
Biomedical subjects
K Springen
Publications and source records attributed to K Springen.
Calcium overload. After years of neglect, this vital mineral is showing up in everything from OJ to muffin mix. Are we getting too much of a good thing?
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Calcium, Dietary↗
Is your cell really safe?
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Brain Neoplasms↗
After fen-phen.
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Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation↗
Are drive-through deliveries so bad? Shorter hospital stays may not endanger infants.
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Adult↗
'I think about it all the time'.
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Disasters↗
Planning to be poor. With a little help, the nursing home won't get your savings--your kids will.
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Aged↗
In search of safer blood.
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Blood Loss, Surgical↗
Money madness. Are private psychiatric hospitals resorting to kidnapping in their quest for paying patients?
In their zeal for lucrative insurance reimbursement, some private psychiatric hospitals seem to have gone over the edge themselves. A number of these institutions, critics charge, use outright coercion to commit and retain patients. Now some formerly abducted "recruits" are fighting back with lawsuits.
Civil Rights↗
Doctors and AIDS.
Just a year ago most authorities considered the chances of patients contracting AIDS from doctors and other healthcare workers a virtual impossibility. But last week a Florida woman who got AIDS from her dentist lay near death, and two Minneapolis physicians admitted they had treated hundreds of patients since being diagnosed with the virus. Although doctors are at far greater risk than patients, the Minneapolis cases renewed the debate over the right of sides to know each other's HIV status.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Doctors grapple with ethics.
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Bioethical Issues↗
The demise of autopsies. Losing key medical data.
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Autopsy↗