In reports of industry-funded studies that compared the ocular hypotensive efficacy of topical prostaglandins, conclusions in the article abstracts differed from the results of the main outcome measure 62 percent of the time.
The harms of communicating autism risk can be avoided by helping families to understand risk and to distinguish between poor and good sources of scientific information, which should take families’ interests into account.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(4):323-327. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.4.nlit1-1504.
Medical educators must become aware of undesirable behaviors or attitudes that they may inadvertently be modeling to students in the clinic because the implicit messages students receive can profoundly affect their behavior and interactions with patients.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(2):142-146. doi:
10.1001/virtualmentor.2015.17.2.jdsc1-1502.
The high price of cancer drugs in the US relative to European countries with universal health care raises ethical issues of access, financial burden on patients, and unsustainability of the health care system.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(8):750-753. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.8.nlit1-1508.
Distinctions between treatment and enhancement, and between supposedly authentic and inauthentic tools, often inform judgments about what is morally acceptable in sport.
The American Psychological Association’s ethical guidelines condoning psychologists’ participation in torture, which were motivated by professional self-interest, constitute a violation of medical ethics and international law.
AMA J Ethics. 2015; 17(10):924-930. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2015.17.10.nlit1-1510.
Studies of families whose children were born through assisted conception need larger sample sizes to determine the effects of various family structures on children.