10 years ago in the AORN Journal

AORN Journal,  May, 2007  

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An article provides information on using stereotactic biopsy procedures to obtain brain tumor samples. * "Health Policy Issues" laments that the passing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 does not give Americans universal health care, resolve the issue of uninsured patients, or provide guaranteed coverage for workers who move from one job to another.

* An article on the nurse's role in bioethics addresses such difficult issues as the right to live, the right to die, organ transplantation, research and experimentation, and access to abortions. * A news item reports that Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, has released the first medical guidelines for treating adult obesity.

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