Questions tagged [health]
Questions relating to the practice of medicine or provision of healthcare
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Implications of Failing N95 Fit Test During COVID-19 Pandemic?
I am a Registered Nurse and have documented evidence in my NY hospital that I failed the N95 fit test for years. What are my rights surrounding this and the COVID-19 epidemic? I have a NIOSH compliant ...
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Costs of forced quarantine
In the US or the EU, who has to pay for a period of forced quarantine?
The question pops up due to the recent coronavirus epidemic, but I see that for previous epidemics (Ebola, SARS, MERS) ...
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Is a letter from a non-US licensed physician legally valid to use prescription tint windows in California?
I read in the California Assembly Bill no. 1303 (September 2017) – amended medical exemptions:
(10) Sun screening devices meeting the requirements of Section 26708.2 installed on the side windows ...
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Which law in Australia prevent sunscreen manufacturers from displaying the PPD ratings on their sunscreens?
I read on https://labmuffin.com/sunscreen-review-2-bioderma-la-roche-posay/:
The Canadian version has a PPD (UVA protection factor) of 42. Interestingly, even though there’s a known PPD value for ...
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Does displaying the UPF value on a textile have any legal binding in the United States?
I read on https://blog.coolibar.com/whats-the-difference-between-spf-and-upf/:
Currently, in the United States, the standards for UPF are voluntary.
This made me wonder: Does displaying the UPF ...
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Is it a violation of HIPAA to say that a baby was born?
If a medical worker tells someone the first name of a child born at a hospital on that day, is that a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ? Does it make a ...
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Are there any recommended or prescribed time limits for ambulance to reach a special need patient in case of emergency?
When I look for ambulance and how fast it should come, I find information regarding allowed driving speed.
However, for planning hospitals and roads, one should no how much time is on average ...
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Is it lawful for some English NHS trusts to stock more kinds of medications than others?
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My daughter lives in an area covered by a NHS Trust beneath that's not Oxford. Her migraine can be only treated with a triptan on Oxford's formulary, but not her own area's, like ...
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University dorm serving meat with vegetarian food
I'm a college student and a vegetarian. I've noticed in the last year and a half that the dining hall department sometimes serves vegetarian food on the same platter as meat food, and I let the staff ...
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Is it illegal to test someones abandoned DNA in the United States?
Let's say I suspect my friend (or spouse) has Huntington's disease. If I were to take their used tissue out of the garbage can and test it for Huntington's disease, would that be illegal?
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What can qualify as a terminal illness with respect to assisted suicide?
As an example, HIV used to be considered a terminal disease by doctors. Nowadays, there are treatments which extend life significantly for HIV patients, and doctors consider it to be a manageable ...
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United States HIPAA and New Zealand HISO from outside these countries
We are developing a software product for storing and managing health records in Australia, with the software product primarily targeted towards Australian healthcare organisations. This requires us to ...
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Is encrypted health data still considered personal data and subject to GDPR Art. 9 (1)?
I need to exchange data from a patient providing its own health data to a healthcare provider over my server. The data is encrypted on the patient's device by the public key of the healthcare provider ...
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How an Advance Medical Directive works in practice?
I will be signing a DPOA and Advance Medical Directive in a few days, but I live in a different state than the person those documents are for. If that person becomes incapacitated or is deemed unfit ...
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ARD / ZDF reduced bill or no pay at all
I have many years now "Tinnitus". I have already visited a doctor and he told me that i can use a hearing device or i should do an operation, if things go worse.
A friend of mine said that as long i ...
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