Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Regulations have improved since thalidomide but drug scares are still possible
Published 2015-12-10The thalidomide tragedy, which resulted in thousands of deaths and disabilities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, changed medicine forever. One of its outcomes was the establishment of more robust mechanisms for the ...Open AccessArticle -
Gene editing could open up animal organ transplants into humans
Published 2015-12-04The clinical potential and ethical difficulty posed by gene-editing technology, which can “find and replace” targeted genes, is seemingly endless. But while public attention is focused on whether we should use it to change ...Open AccessArticle -
Smoking Cessation Programs for LGBTI People: A Systematic Review of Content and Effect
Published 2015-11-27Despite widespread evidence of smoking’s harms to health, rising costs of tobacco products, and the visibility of public health interventions aimed at tobacco users, tobacco use remains high among lesbian women, gay men, ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Should I stay or should I go? Patient understandings of and responses to source-isolation practices,
Published 2015-01-01Isolation of patients, who are colonised or infected with a multidrug-resistant organism (source-isolation), is a common practice in most acute health-care settings, to prevent transmission to other patients. Efforts to ...Open AccessArticle -
Despite help on offer, many smokers prefer to quit on their own – here’s why
Published 2015-11-11If you smoke more than ten cigarettes a day or have experienced cravings while trying to quit, your doctor has probably recommended a cigarette substitute such as nicotine patches or gum to help you. But our research ...Open AccessArticle