Hot Topics: Research Ethics
by Elisheva “Eli” Nemetz, BA, MBE
The field of bioethics emerged as a result of the atrocities attested to in the Nuremberg Trials and the inhumanity of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.…
Full ArticleSTUDENT VOICES | CHYNN ETHICS PRIZE HONORABLE MENTIONBy Julia Sese For the first half of my education at Fordham, I was determined to become a doctor and practice medicine abroad in countries that do not have access to adequate health care. It was not until my Junior year, after taking “Anthropology of Health and Healing,” […]
Full ArticleAs part of the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education’s Advancing Health and Social Justice Web Series, Dr. Alana Gunn and Dr. Nicole Overstreet led a panel on Wednesday, November 19th titled, “Ethical Implications of Stigma and Mistrust in Healthcare and Research.” moderated by Dr. Laura Specker Sullivan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. Both Drs. Gunn […]
Full ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccine ethics: Covid could come back stronger if rich nations monopolise doses“The news that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may prove up to 90 per cent effective at preventing symptoms of Covid has sparked something approaching euphoria across the globe. Stock markets have soared and there is speculation everything could return to “normal” by the spring. But with this […]
Full ArticleResponses to the UK COVID-19 Challenge Studies: “In a pandemic, time is lives. So far, over a million people have died. “There is a moral imperative to develop to a safe and effective vaccine – and to do so as quickly as possible. Challenge studies are one way of accelerating vaccine research. They are ethical […]
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In an essay published in Scientific American, we call for immediate and intensive research into the possibility that exposure to one of the coronaviruses that cause the common cold could decrease the severity of Covid-19, and could be leveraged to expand what’s been called
“pre-existing” immunity to the disease by deliberate transmission of common cold coronaviruses. Here, we expand on our proposal.
The post Could the Common Cold Help Stop Covid-19? We Need to Know–Now. appeared first on The Hastings Center.
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As multiple Covid vaccine candidates enter clinical trials and hopefully move closer to approval, one important unanswered question is how to compensate the rare cases of serious vaccine harm.
The post Fair Compensation for Rare Vaccine Harms appeared first on The Hastings Center.
Full ArticleEducation and COVID-19 An Ethical Opening for Higher Ed Institutions “The job of IRBs is to approve research involving human subjects. The ethicists, scientists and community members who staff the IRBs do risk-benefit analyses before they allow a proposed experiment to go forward. Unlike hospitals — nearly all of which have ethics committees — colleges typically […]
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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).…
STUDENT VOICES | CHYNN PRIZE SECOND-PLACE WINNERBy Elizabeth Wood Last semester I read Carl Elliott’s “The Best-Selling, Billion Dollar Pills Tested on Homeless People.” He introduces a concerning ethical dilemma, namely, the use of homeless populations as participants in phase 1 drug trials. Learning about this practice made me very uncomfortable. As a student at […]
Full ArticleHuman Brain Surrogates Research: The Onrushing Ethical Dilemma
Self-Defeating Codes of Medical Ethics and How to Fix Them: Failures in COVID-19 Response and Beyond
The Limits of Individualism: Potential Societal Harms from the EAP for Convalescent Plasma
Duties When an Anonymous Student Health Survey Finds a Hot Spot of Suicidality
Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs Via Pre-approval Access and Emergency Use Authorization
Patient and Family Descriptions of Ethical Concerns
Solidarity and Community Engagement in Global Health Research
Partnering With Patients to Bridge Gaps in Consent for Acute Care Research
The Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies
Where do we go from here in fighting COVID-19? “Now, researchers are racing to develop the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines, utilizing a variety of innovative technologies to produce more convenient and more potent options.”
Full ArticleAs states begin to vaccinate more people, “everyone needs to grapple with questions of equity — how to improve vaccine access for all Americans, especially for groups historically made most vulnerable to severe illness.”
Full ArticleIs mRNA a potential future in biotechnology? We have seen mRNA technology used in groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines distributed all over. Now that we have used this technology in vaccines, what are the possibilities or challenges of future use?
Full Article“From academic research centers to intensive care units (ICUs) to scientific journals to government agencies, scientists fighting the pandemic say they are hitting a wall, 15 months after the first report of a cluster of cases introduced the virus “
Full ArticleCan we work faster to make vaccines? How can we get vaccines distributed across the world? What are the ethical challenges of vaccine distribution? All these questions need to be considered for what it takes to vaccinate the world against COVID-19.
Full Article“The goal is to gain important insights into early human development….. But the research, which was published in two separate papers Wednesday in the journal Nature Portfolio, raises sensitive moral and ethical concerns.”
Full Article“The end of the self-imposed limit could unleash impressive but ethically charged new experiments on extending human development outside the womb.” What are the ethical challenges that would arise from this end to the limit?
Full ArticleJustice, an important pillar of bioethics, addresses inequities and disparities, especially with COVID-19. “The medically vulnerable population of undocumented immigrants should be protected in the process of being vaccinated for Covid-19.”
Full ArticleMass vaccination reveals barriers to vaccine equity that exist in society. “Vaccine navigators have a role in improving vaccine equity: the challenge of responding to underlying inequalities that create barriers to health and health care.”
Full ArticleWhat can we do moving forward address disparities from COVID-19? Possibly, “a Covid Commission can help to untangle the scope and role government-sanctioned misinformation played in the U.S. death toll from the pandemic”
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