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"Informed Consent: What Must Be Disclosed and What Must Be Understood?" #bioethics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2...

"Deception and the Clinical Ethicist" #bioethics https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2020.1863513#.YKk6_IVUaZE.twitter...

A group is studying how covid vaccines work when the patient receives different vaccines for the 2 doses. It appears that combining the...

Thoughts: We need to both help other struggling societies access needed items (vaccines, oxygen, health care) and also vaccinate our...

UT Southwestern to study COVID-19 vaccine-allergy link #bioethics #covid19#vaccinations https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/05/14/ut-sou...

Ireland spurns hackers’ bitcoin demand against health system #bioethics Yes this pertains to bioethics. Patient privacy, inability of...

are digital platforms like facebook, twitter, etc enough like common carriers that they should be regulated in the same fashion as other...

This sounds interesting but the article is currently embargoed. I look forward to reading it. Simple surgical procedure reduces stroke...

Excess Deaths From COVID-19 and Other Causes in the US, March 2020 to January 2021 #covid19 https://ja.ma/3bfWw8e

well this isn’t good. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/950756?src=wnl_edit_tpal&uac=13816HY&impID=3367385&faf=1 I think on balance...

oh my. I have only seen this is this single article. If it is true, I do hope someone does a study to see if this has any effect on...

Brazil suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine in pregnant women nationally after death. The woman appears to have died of a hemorrhagic...

Raus K, Mortier E, Eeckloo ZK. Ethical Issues in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Bioethics. 2021. Published online May 5, 2021...

Parks JA, Howard M. Dying well in nursing homes during ovid-19 and beyond: The need for a relational and familial ethic. Bioethics. 2021....

on a medical student with Charcot Marie Tooth who is estranged from her father. "The Silent Mutation" This cause damage to nerves of the...

"A Crisis of Undiagnosed Cancers Is Emerging in the Pandemic’s Second Year" Don't delay necessary care because of covid. #bioethics...

Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5dPn_eP7Q

on the pfizer vaccine in 12-15 year olds. We need vaccines for children. #bioethics #covid19 #vaccination https://www.nytimes.com/2021/0...