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Tag Archives: ethics
‘Nonsensical’ Limits on Supportive Drugs Complicate Cancer Care
November 13, 2024 A young woman with breast cancer was experiencing such intense hot flashes from her triplet chemotherapy regimen, AC-T, that she begged to stop treatment. Her oncologist, Ramy Sedhom, MD, suggested she take oxybutynin, an inexpensive drug for overactive … Continue reading
Posted in FDA, Medicine, Medscape
Tagged anti-nausea, cancer, cancer care, ethics, FDA, health insurance, medical ethics, odanesetron, oncology, pill limits, prior authorization
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US Supreme Court unlikely to approve assisted suicide
January 18, 1997 Should physicians be allowed to give terminally ill patients lethal doses of medication? This question, more frequently on the minds of people in the US thanks to Jack Kevorkian, came before the Supreme Court on Jan 8. … Continue reading
Posted in Legal, Medicine, The Lancet
Tagged ethics, euthanasia, medical ethics, physician-assisted suicide, Supreme Court
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