Bioethics
Ethical Obligations Regarding Short-Term Global Health Clinical Experiences
30 Mar, 2018 | 03:53h | UTCCommentaries: Ethical Guidance for Volunteer Medical Trips Issued by ACP – Medscape (free registration required) AND Ethical Duties ID’d for Short-Term Global Health Experiences – Physician’s Briefing (free)
Doctors just used a brand new gene therapy to try to save a child’s vision
30 Mar, 2018 | 02:45h | UTCDoctors just used a brand new gene therapy to try to save a child’s vision – VOX (free)
“There is a catch: It costs $850,000”.
Artificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Medicine — But Is It Ethical?
22 Mar, 2018 | 23:53h | UTCArtificial Intelligence Is Infiltrating Medicine — But Is It Ethical? – Forbes (free)
The Challenge of Doctor-Patient Relations in the Internet Age
8 Mar, 2018 | 22:27h | UTCThe Challenge of Doctor-Patient Relations in the Internet Age – The New York Times (10 articles per month are free)
Related: E-patients hold key to the future of healthcare – The BMJ Opinion (free)
Authors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments
8 Mar, 2018 | 21:38h | UTCAuthors of premier medical textbook didn’t disclose $11 million in industry payments – STAT (free)
“’The most recognized book in all of medicine’ is also rife with hidden financial conflicts. Should Harrison’s authors be disclosing $11 million in payments from drug and device makers?” (via @caseymross see Tweet)
Why Right-to-Try Laws Are Dangerous
8 Mar, 2018 | 20:27h | UTCWhy Right-to-Try Laws Are Dangerous – The ASCO Post (free)
Global Reproductive Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century
8 Mar, 2018 | 20:26h | UTCNew issue: Global Reproductive Health Care Ethics in the 21st Century – AMA Journal of Ethics (free)
Editor’s Choice: There but for the grace of God
15 Feb, 2018 | 11:32h | UTCEditor’s Choice: There but for the grace of God . . . – The BMJ (free)
About liability and error in medical practice.
Big tobacco’s offer: $1 billion for research. Should scientists take it?
15 Feb, 2018 | 11:28h | UTCBig tobacco’s offer: $1 billion for research. Should scientists take it? – Science (free)
Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics
15 Feb, 2018 | 11:11h | UTCNew Issue: Graphic Medicine and Health Care Ethics – AMA Journal of Ethics (free articles and commentaries)
Pro/Con Debate – two doctors with opposite views on physician-assisted death
5 Feb, 2018 | 16:15h | UTCPro: I’m a doctor with end-stage cancer. I support medical aid in dying – STAT (free)
Con: Physician-assisted suicide won’t atone for medicine’s ‘original sin’ – STAT (free)
ISPOR Code of Ethics 2017
4 Feb, 2018 | 17:41h | UTCISPOR Code of Ethics 2017 (4th Edition) – Value in Health (free PDF)
Summary Points: ISPOR Code of Ethics 2017 (4th Edition) (free PDF)
Commentary: ISPOR Updates Its Code of Ethics – ISPOR—The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, via NewsWise (free)
“New Edition Addresses Research Issues in Today’s Digital Health Era”
To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis
26 Jan, 2018 | 01:42h | UTCPerspectives: To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – New England Journal of Medicine (free) AND Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians (free)
Related: Why Physician Burnout Is Endemic, and How Health Care Must Respond – NEJM Catalyst (free) AND Counting the costs: U.S. hospitals feeling the pain of physician burnout – Reuters (free)
Research: Cloning of Macaque Monkeys
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:38h | UTCCloning of Macaque Monkeys by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer – Cell (free)
Commentaries: These monkey twins are the first primate clones made by the method that developed Dolly – Science (free) AND First monkeys cloned with technique that made Dolly the sheep – Nature (free) AND How afraid of human cloning should we be? – The Guardian (free)
An ultrasound on Instagram Suggested the Baby Could be in Danger. Does a Physician Have a Duty to Warn?
26 Jan, 2018 | 00:02h | UTC
Gene Editing – And What it Really Means to Rewrite the Code of Life
25 Jan, 2018 | 20:53h | UTCGene editing – and what it really means to rewrite the code of life – The Guardian (free)
Related: Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos (free articles and commentaries) AND Simple guide to CRISPR, one of the biggest science stories of the decade – VOX (free)
Ethical and Safety Issues of Stem Cell-Based Therapy
23 Jan, 2018 | 14:18h | UTCEthical and Safety Issues of Stem Cell-Based Therapy – International Journal of Medical Science (free)
Bioethics: 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
16 Jan, 2018 | 18:46h | UTCBioethics: 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (selected free texts)
‘Frankenstein’ Reflects The Hopes And Fears Of Every Scientific Era – The Atlantic (Free) AND The Horror Story That Haunts Science: Two Hundred Years Later, Frankenstein still Shocks And Inspires – Science (free) AND Infographic: Creating a modern monster – Science (free) AND Taming the Monsters of Tomorrow – Science (free) AND Dr Frankenstein’s Bioethical Experiment – The Lancet (Free Registration Required)
Ethics for Healthcare Data is Obsessed With Risk – Not Public Benefits
16 Jan, 2018 | 17:08h | UTCEthics for healthcare data is obsessed with risk – not public benefits – The Conversation (free)
$850,000 per Patient for Blindness Gene Therapy
4 Jan, 2018 | 16:53h | UTCSpark to charge $850,000 per patient for blindness gene therapy – Reuters (free) AND US drug firm offers cure for blindness – at $425,000 an eye – The Guardian (free) AND Spark prices its gene therapy as most expensive U.S. medicine — but with plans to ease cost concerns – STAT (free)
Retrospective Consent in a Neonatal Randomized Controlled Trial
2 Jan, 2018 | 16:30h | UTCRetrospective Consent in a Neonatal Randomized Controlled Trial – Pediatrics (link to abstract – $ for full-text)
Commentary: Retrospective Consent Upped Participation in Neonatal Trial – MedPage Today (free registration required)
Balancing Ethics, Risks of ‘Right to Try’
2 Jan, 2018 | 16:22h | UTCBalancing ethics, risks of ‘right to try’ – ACP Internist (free)
Review: Ethical Aspects of Brain Computer Interfaces
1 Jan, 2018 | 12:04h | UTCEthical aspects of brain computer interfaces: a scoping review – BMC Medical Ethics (free)
Commentary: Ethical questions raised by brain-computer interfaces – BMC Series Blog (free)
Perspective: Swallowing a Spy — The Potential Uses of Digital Adherence Monitoring
29 Dec, 2017 | 19:37h | UTCRelated commentary: The ‘smart pill’ for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder raises tricky ethical questions – STAT (free)
Opinion: Is Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable?
28 Dec, 2017 | 17:04h | UTCIs Editing the Genome for Climate Change Adaptation Ethically Justifiable? – AMA Journal of Ethics (free)