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Ann Ig
January 2025
Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, Lecce, Complesso Ecotekne, Lecce, Italy.
Background: Correct information is an essential tool to guide thoughts, attitudes, daily choices or more important decisions such as those regarding health. Today, a huge amount of information sources and media is available. Increasing possibilities of obtaining data also require understanding and positioning skills, particularly the ability to navigate the ocean of information and to choose what is best without becoming overwhelmed.
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December 2024
Department College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Hafr Al-Batin, Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia.
The proliferation of fake news is one of the major problems that causes personal and societal harm. In today's fast-paced digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, often leaving individuals without the time to verify the authenticity of the information. This can cause irreparable damage to personal reputations and organizational credibility.
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December 2024
University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Department of Neurology, 11100 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44106; Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106.
Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic attacks (PNEA) are subject to considerable direct and indirect comorbid psycho-socio-economic impact from their condition. Fortunately, diagnosis and treatment of PNEA has shown to be both medically effective and cost-efficient, ultimately improving PNEA symptoms, mental health, quality of life, and healthcare resource utilization. Though provocation techniques for PNEA have proven highly effective in diagnosing and providing expedited treatment to these patients, they have recently begun to fall out of favor due to ethical concerns about their use.
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October 2024
Department of Philosophy, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.
Despite its prevalence today, the practice of purely performative resuscitation (PPR)-paradigmatically, the "slow code"-has attracted more critics in bioethics than defenders. The most common criticism of the slow code is that it's fundamentally deceptive or harmful, while the most common justification offered is that it may benefit the patient's loved ones, by symbolically honoring the patient or the care team's relationship with the family. I argue that critics and defenders of the slow code each have a point.
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August 2024
Department of Nursing, Ordu University Faculty of Health Sciences, Ordu, Turkey. Electronic address:
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