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Check out the recording of American Journal of Bioethics’ latest webinar on the ethical issues surrounding allocating COVID-19 vaccines. Journal editor David Magnus leads panelists Grace Lee, Kathy Kinlaw, Govind Persad, and Monica Peek in an informative and intriguing conversation.…
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by Jennifer McCurdy, PhD, BSN, MH, HEC-C
Pandemics are not new to human experience. Stories of the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and waves of smallpox, cholera, and measles have a place in the collective social memory.…
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by Asma Fazal, MD, MRCPI, MHSc
Offering sanctuary to those fleeing conflicts is the most pressing human rights issue in the world today.…
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by Jonathan H. Chen MD, PhD and Abraham Verghese MD, MACP
The post originally appeared as an editorial in the November 2020 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics.…
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The Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access (CUPA), a project of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine Division of Medical Ethics
The undersigned are members of a multidisciplinary group comprising bioethicists, clinicians, patient advocates, and representatives from industry and law who for the past seven years have been studying the ethical issues surrounding access to medical products before they have received regulatory approval.…
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This editorial appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Bioethics
by David Magnus, PhD
This issue features a set of articles addressing allocation issues for drugs for COVID-19 that have not been approved by the FDA but are available through either Emergency Use Authorization or Expanded Access Programs (EAP).…
by Nolan M. Kavanagh, M.P.H., Rishi R. Goel, M.Sc.
The COVID-19 pandemic has sidelined many medical students from the “frontlines.” Our classes are now online, clinical responsibilities were delayed, and testing schedules for board examinations have been thrown into uncertainty.…
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This post appears as an editorial in the July 2020 special COVID-19 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics
by Sheri Fink, M.D.,
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The Good Doctor (Season 3; Episode 6): Risky Choices
A pregnant woman has an abdominal tumor and is in the hospital to have it removed.…
Full ArticleSelect Interviews From the INS Annual Meeting—Keith Humphreys, Tom Insel, Uma Karmarkar, Carl Marci, Ariel Cascio, Winston Chiong, Frederic Gilbert, Cynthia Kubu, and Jonathan Pugh
Conflicts of interest policies for authors, peer reviewers, and editors of bioethics journals
Moving beyond the theoretical: Medical students’ desire for practical, role-specific ethics training
How should we deal with misattributed paternity? A survey of lay public attitudes
Genetic Fingerprints and National Security
Online public reactions to fMRI communication with patients with disorders of consciousness: Quality of life, end-of-life decision making, and concerns with misdiagnosis
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Surrogate Decision Making in the Internet Age”
Review of Robert Klitzman, Am I My Genes? Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing
What started as an antitrust lawsuit brought by states over just two drugs in 2016 has exploded into an investigation of alleged price-fixing involving at least 16 companies and 300 drugs, Joseph Nielsen, an assistant attorney general and antitrust investigator in Connecticut who has been a leading force in the probe, said in an interview. His comments in an interview with The Washington Post represent the first public disclosure of the dramatically expanded scale of the investigation.
Full ArticlePaul Root Wolpe, Ph.D. is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics, the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics and Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University.
Some 7,000 light years away, Einstein’s theory of general relativity has stood up to its most intense test yet, scientists said on Thursday.
Full ArticleScientists used a 3D printer loaded with cells to create mini livers which can be infected with a disease to observe its progress through organ. The tiny livers can also be used to monitor effectiveness of drugs.
Full ArticleThere’s a new way to create materials with the properties of living tissues. Oxford University scientists have designed a programmable 3-D printer than can pump out a material that can flex like muscle or communicate like neurons.
Full ArticleThe FDA has proposed new rules aimed at improving the safety and reliability of automated external defibrillators, like this one on a commuter train near Boston. AEDs treat patients suffering from sudden cardiac arrest by shocking the heart back into a normal rhythm.
Full ArticlePublishing house Macmillan on Friday became the fifth and final U.S. book publisher to sign a settlement with the government in a sweeping antitrust case that accused them of conspiring to raise e-book prices.
Full ArticleAfter running 1,000 computers non-stop for 39 days to uncover the world’s largest prime number yet, a Missouri college professor said this week he is starting all over to top his own record.
Full ArticleThe first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq war has received a double-arm transplant. He also received bone marrow from the same dead donor who supplied his new arms. That novel approach is aimed at helping his body accept the new limbs with minimal medication to prevent rejection.
Full ArticleIt may be decades before machines take the place of doctors — yes, it’s possible — but Bedford-based iRobot has won federal approval for a rolling robot that can now connect physicians with patients anywhere in the world.
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