Bioethics
General anesthesia in end‐of‐life care: extending the indications for anesthesia beyond surgery
22 Apr, 2021 | 08:26h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
🔐"Our redefinition of the scope and reach of general anaesthesia through end‐of‐life care, radical though it is, would recognise that anaesthetists have skills that can help alleviate suffering for the dying patient."@TaklaAntony @Assoc_Anaes #FOAMed
🔗https://t.co/51Ja7lFIBU pic.twitter.com/vnpvf484my
— 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘢 (@Anaes_Journal) April 21, 2021
Financial Toxicity in Advanced and Metastatic Cancer: Overburdened and Underprepared
22 Apr, 2021 | 08:24h | UTCRelated: Opinion – The high price of anticancer drugs: origins, implications, barriers, solutions AND Tackling the High Cost of Cancer Care AND Study: Clinician Engagement Regarding Financial Toxicity After Diagnosis of Cancer AND
Perspective | Do Kids Really Need to Be Vaccinated for Covid? Yes. No. Maybe.
22 Apr, 2021 | 08:38h | UTCDo Kids Really Need to Be Vaccinated for Covid? Yes. No. Maybe. – Undark
Commentary on Twitter
Great article by @Sara_Talpos
key qs:
1 Does a kid need to be vaccinated for their sake?
2 Does a kid need to be vaccinated to protect adults who decline?
3. Does a kid need to be vaccinated to protect adults who were vax'd?— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) April 20, 2021
WHO panel comes out against requiring vaccination proof for travel
21 Apr, 2021 | 07:03h | UTCWHO panel comes out against requiring vaccination proof for travel – The Hill
Related: Opinion | How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports (several texts on the subject)
Bioethics | COVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated?
21 Apr, 2021 | 07:00h | UTCCOVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated? – The Conversation
UK researchers will deliberately reinfect people with COVID-19 in new ‘challenge study’
20 Apr, 2021 | 06:03h | UTCSee also: Young people to be reinfected with Covid for study – BBC
Liabilities with artificial intelligence: 4 things future radiologists kneed to know
18 Apr, 2021 | 21:02h | UTCClinical applications of AI in MSK imaging: a liability perspective – Skeletal Radiology
Commentaries: 4 Must-Knows about Future Radiologist Liabilities with AI – Diagnostic Imaging AND Who will be liable in the coming AI age? 4 things for radiologists to know – HealthImaging
Viewpoint | Industry-Sponsored Speaker Programs—End of the Line?
14 Apr, 2021 | 01:36h | UTCIndustry-Sponsored Speaker Programs—End of the Line? – JAMA
U.S. regulators pause Johnson & Johnson vaccine rollout over rare (1 in a million) cases of blood clots
14 Apr, 2021 | 02:16h | UTCJoint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine – U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Commentaries: Covid-19: US suspends Johnson and Johnson vaccine rollout over blood clots – BMJ AND CDC and FDA recommend US pause use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine over blood clot concerns – CNN AND US halts J&J COVID vaccine after reports of blood clots – CIDRAP AND U.S. urges pause on use of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine after rare blood clotting cases – CIDRAP
Covid-19: Italy makes vaccination mandatory for healthcare workers
7 Apr, 2021 | 01:39h | UTCCovid-19: Italy makes vaccination mandatory for healthcare workers – The BMJ
How your doctor describes your medical condition can encourage you to say ‘yes’ to surgery when there are other options
6 Apr, 2021 | 00:56h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
📢Just out in @JOSPT
Labels for rotator cuff disease influence management preferences
People told they had a rotator cuff tear had higher perceived need for shoulder surgery than those told they have bursitis
Thread below 👇@msk_health @MaryOKeeffe007https://t.co/sLkvYJ77at
— Joshua Zadro (@zadro_josh) April 1, 2021
Opinion | The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands
5 Apr, 2021 | 01:34h | UTCThe Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands – Scientific American
Opinion | How to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports
5 Apr, 2021 | 01:42h | UTCHow to lose friends and alienate people? On the problems of vaccine passports – The BMJ Opinion
Related: Resistance from health experts and business owners could doom ‘vaccine passports’ even before they launch – STAT AND How Vaccine Passports Will Worsen Inequities In Global Health – Microbiology AND Vaccine certificates: does the end justify the means? – The Lancet Microbe AND Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development – The BMJ Opinion AND Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control? – The BMJ Opinion AND “Vaccine Passport” Certification — Policy and Ethical Considerations – New England Journal of Medicine AND Interim position paper: considerations regarding proof of COVID-19 vaccination for international travellers – World Health Organization
Commentary on Twitter
"All in all, there are reasons to conclude that vaccine passports for basic activities may actually undermine vaccine rollout by disincentivising the very populations who most need incentivising" @ReicherStephen @ProfJohnDrury https://t.co/UL9qfFiOcA
— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) April 2, 2021
Editorial | Vaccine certificates: does the end justify the means?
1 Apr, 2021 | 03:41h | UTCVaccine certificates: does the end justify the means? – The Lancet Microbe
Related: Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development – The BMJ Opinion AND Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control? – The BMJ Opinion AND “Vaccine Passport” Certification — Policy and Ethical Considerations – New England Journal of Medicine AND Interim position paper: considerations regarding proof of COVID-19 vaccination for international travellers – World Health Organization
Opinion | “Vaccine Passport” Certification — Policy and Ethical Considerations
1 Apr, 2021 | 03:40h | UTCRelated: Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development – The BMJ Opinion AND Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control? – The BMJ Opinion AND Vaccine certificates: does the end justify the means? – The Lancet Microbe AND Interim position paper: considerations regarding proof of COVID-19 vaccination for international travellers – World Health Organization
Opinion | Covid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development
31 Mar, 2021 | 03:31h | UTCCovid-19 vaccine passports will harm sustainable development – The BMJ Opinion
“Where you are born can predict how freely you will be able to travel for opportunity, education, and leisure. Being a citizen of certain countries grants people access to nearly the entire globe, whereas others face challenges just to legally leave the borders of the country they live in”
Opinion | Covid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control?
31 Mar, 2021 | 03:29h | UTCCovid-19 vaccine passports and vaccine hesitancy: freedom or control? – The BMJ Opinion
“Recent debates around “vaccine passports,” or formal/mandatory certification of vaccination, point towards a potential widening societal divide between those who are vaccinated and those who are not.”
Analysis of conflicts of interest among authors and researchers of European clinical guidelines in cardiovascular medicine
30 Mar, 2021 | 02:53h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter (thread – click for more)
We've just published in @Clin_Med our analysis of financial conflicts of interest (CoIs) amongst the authors of 5 ESC Guidelines. What we found was quite surprising. We would love to know what you all think!https://t.co/U371ROXGAv
Let's start with a poll 👇🏽
— Benoy Shah MD (@dr_benoy_n_shah) March 28, 2021
Point-Counterpoint | Should healthcare providers receive treatment priority during a pandemic?
30 Mar, 2021 | 03:23h | UTCIntroducing Point-Counterpoint Perspectives in the Journal of Hospital Medicine
Counterpoint: Prioritizing Healthcare Workers for Scarce Critical Care Resources Is Impractical and Unjust – Journal of Hospital Medicine
Cochrane Library Editorial: Contested effects and chaotic policies: the 2020 story of (hydroxy) chloroquine for treating COVID‐19
28 Mar, 2021 | 22:55h | UTCCommentary and Infographic: Is chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine useful in treating people with COVID-19, or in preventing infection in people who have been exposed to the virus? – Cochrane Library
Original review: Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for prevention and treatment of COVID‐19 – Cochrane Library
Commentary on Twitter
New #VisualAbstract for the @Cochrane_IDG systematic review on #Chloroquine or #hydroxychloroquine for prevention and treatment of #COVID19 https://t.co/U7TnMzQTil Many thanks to @tylerdau & @cg_coleman from @EmoryMedicine pic.twitter.com/tlFKKa31E8
— The Cochrane Library (@CochraneLibrary) March 25, 2021
Editorial | Remote by default general practice: must we, should we, dare we?
28 Mar, 2021 | 22:18h | UTC
https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/1375408196303650818
Integrating Transwomen and Female Athletes with Differences of Sex Development (DSD) into Elite Competition: The FIMS 2021 Consensus Statement
28 Mar, 2021 | 22:06h | UTC
Perspective | Leveraging Open Science to Accelerate Research
25 Mar, 2021 | 08:37h | UTCLeveraging Open Science to Accelerate Research – New England Journal of Medicine
Editorial | Scholarly communications harmed by covid-19
23 Mar, 2021 | 02:25h | UTCScholarly communications harmed by covid-19 – The BMJ
Commentaries on Twitter
Our new editorial in @bmj_latest
The covid-19 pandemic has accentuated an erosion in civility in academic discourse, leading to deep divisions
Measured, constructive criticism confined to the content, *not the person*, is the basis of academic freedomhttps://t.co/8NVVVTDz5I
— Alasdair Munro (@apsmunro) March 22, 2021
The pandemic has accentuated an erosion in civility in academic discourse, leading to deep divisions being played out in the media. This is potentially harmful to public trust in scientists and healthcare professionals, say Raj Bhopal and @apsmunrohttps://t.co/31bQm2GJfD
— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) March 22, 2021
Opinion | An open plea for dignity and respect in science
23 Mar, 2021 | 02:24h | UTCAn open plea for dignity and respect in science – The BMJ Opinion
Related: Scientists who express different views on Covid-19 should be heard, not demonized – STAT
Commentary on Twitter
Only by listening to and debating honest opposing views, can we hope to overcome the fear and anger that surrounds us. #COVID19 #pandemia
With @iona_heath and Jerome Hoffman @bmj_latest Opinion blog.https://t.co/deGGapwhnS pic.twitter.com/BtUkfhUIV0
— Luca De Fiore (@lucadf) March 22, 2021