ADVISORY/Supreme Court Rules Against Drug Testing for Maternity Patients.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001 TOPIC: Public hospitals may not give drug tests to pregnant women without the patient's informed consent or a valid warrant, according to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The ruling reportedly stated the tests violated patients' privacy rights, according to a Reuters article. In 1989, the Medical University of South Carolina operated under the policy that the medical staff was to perform urine drug tests on maternity patients who appeared to be drug abusers. The policy is said to have been created to encourage mothers-to-be to seek drug counseling, the article states. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Ray Kubacki is the CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Psychemedics Corporation, a company specializing in hair testing for drugs of abuse. Psychemedics has been a leader in the hair testing industry for over a decade and its tests have been upheld in numerous court cases. PR: Daniel Reing, Senior Account Executive (Daniel_Reing@edelman Ed·el·man , Gerald Maurice Born 1929. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for research on the chemical structure and nature of antibodies. .com). Mr. Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Rundquist, of Nova Counseling Associates Inc. (a Nova Media unit), has 30 years of experience counseling and writing on social issues such as drugs and race relations race relations Noun, pl the relations between members of two or more races within a single community race relations npl → relaciones fpl raciales . His political involvement includes writing platforms on crime and drugs, national health care, education and human rights. 231/796-4637 Dr. Helen DuPlessis, chief medical officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, can share her expertise on Medicaid restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). , quality assurance in children's health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. programs, prenatal care prenatal care, n the health care provided the mother and fetus before childbirth. access, substance abuse during pregnancy and the cost and health outcomes of very low birthweight infants and adolescent pregnancies adolescent pregnancy See Teenage pregnancy. . PR: Keith Malone (kmalone@lacare.org). Professor Henry Fradella, J.D., Ph.D., of The College of New Jersey, Department of Law and Justice, is an expert in criminal law and procedure and right to privacy. 609/771-2271 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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