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so it took Mayo Clinic 5 years for them to remove social security numbers from the records even though they realized having them was a...

Tobin MJ. Fiftieth Anniversary of Uncovering the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Story and Timeless Lessons. American Journal of Respiratory...

on a case of monkeypox #infectiousdisease https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61363896

Vaxxinity vaccine to treat Alzheimer’s wins FDA fast-track designation They are working on vaccines for Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons’s and...

There have been rumors about the use of organ harvesting as a form of execution. This article discusses the situation in China....

Is withdrawing treatment really more problematic than withholding treatment? #bioethics #treatmentwithdrawal ...

How low can you go? Justified hesitancy and the ethics of childhood vaccination against COVID-19 #bioethics#vaccination#vaccinehesitancyh...

On vaccination after Covid-19 infection. #covid19 #vaccination https://www.jwatch.org/na54665/2022/02/25/how-useful-vaccination-after-cov...

Paying people for getting vaccinated? A favorable solution for both vaccine-hesitant persons and the public from Bioethics #bioethics...

On interviewing preschooler’s without parents #bioethics #masks https://voiceofsandiego.org/2022/03/07/state-agency-conducted-mask-raids...

An article from American Journal of Bioethics. “Implementing Expanded Prenatal Genetic Testing: Should Parents Have Access to Any and All...

On books: March 4, 2022 I read. A lot. I joined goodreads a while back and startled myself a bit. For the 2021 reading challenge, I...

Poland now has an extremely restrictive abortion law. Some doctors are concerned enough about disobeying the law they appear to be...

The FDA has delayed authorization of the Pfizer Covid vaccine for children under age 5. Preliminary data seems to show that 2 doses seem...

I find the situation at the Olympics to be very disturbing. The Hastings Center in 1983 published an article titled “The Coercive Power...

An article from JAMA on reopening schools “In this study, in-school mitigation measures (eg, masks) and student vaccinations were...

On art “as a tool to manage pain” #pain https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2022/02/art-as-a-tool-to-manage-pain.html

A 2 year-old Italian child needs heart surgery. The family wanted only blood transfusions from people not vaccinated for Coronavirus. An...

No, these are not legal requirements which a physician must follow but following guidelines provides some protection from legal issues...

When a patient receives a transplant, they are by definition immunocompromised and the possessor of a rare and expensive commodity . ...