Medical/Scientific Ethics

George Mason University study finds 2009 US Food and Drug Administration flavored cigarette ban reduced smoking by underage youth by 43% and young adults by 27%Credit: George Mason University Despite a general decline in U.S. tobacco…

'Red' states have the highest uninsured rate, study finds Cleveland - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University reviewed national data from the U.S. Census bureau and found associations between states' voting patterns in the 2016…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (July 14, 2020) - As a rapid influx of patients overwhelmed health systems during the coronavirus pandemic, palliative nurses played dual roles supporting patients, patient families, and colleagues.…

Trends in the gender ratio of authorship at the Robert Graham Center Researchers affiliated with the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care conducted a descriptive bibliometric analysis to determine the…

An opportunity to emphasize equity, social determinants, and prevention in primary care University of Michigan public health experts Julia Wolfson and Cindy Leung argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has made glaringly apparent the structural…

Researchers identify an unintended consequence of a new air traffic modernization plan: a greater risk of having a low birth weight baby Prolonged exposure to loud noise is more than annoying?it is bad for human health. Beyond the obvious…

New essay collection explores the ways Jordan's Peele's 2017 film "Get Out" "revolutionizes the gothic and horror tradition at the same time that it unmasks the particular politics of race in the early twenty-first-century United…

PHILADELPHIA (July 10, 2020) - As of May 2020, nursing home residents account for a staggering one-third of the more than 80,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the U.S. This pandemic has resulted in unprecedented threats--like reduced access…

"We must work together to give pregnant women the evidence base they deserve." CHAPEL HILL, NC - July 10, 2020 - Pregnant women are among those most in need of safe and effective preventives and treatments for HIV and co-infections. Yet…

Most COVID-19 lesions located in peripheral zone and close to pleura; influenza virus more prone to show mucoid impaction and pleural effusionCredit: American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Leesburg, VA, July 9, 2020--An open-access…

Several essays look specifically at how racial inequality is embodied in health inequities. Black Lives in a Pandemic: Implications of Systemic Injustice for End-of-Life Care Alan Elbaum In recent months, Covid-19 has devastated…

Study finds fewer women publishing COVID-related papers, especially in early days of pandemicCredit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A new study finds that fewer women were first authors on COVID-19-related research…

A new Hastings Center special report takes a critical look at the role of genomics in perpetuating racism and inequality Genomics is crowding out ways of reducing inequality, has thwarted medicine from advancing justice, and is creating…

Credit: Oxford University Press Every human being has the right to health and new initiatives should be put in place to encourage pharmaceutical companies to ensure that everyone has access to essential medicine, according to a new…

Increasing the levels of a chemical found in all human cells could boost a woman's fertility and help select the best eggs for IVF, according to University of Queensland research. In the world's most in-depth study of the final steps of…

German National Academy Leopoldina hosts international virtual panel discussion International experts will discuss these issues at an English-language virtual panel discussion organised by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina…

Without care, Lost in Space could mean Lost in Translation LAWRENCE -- It lacks the drama of a shape-shifting alien creature, but another threat looms over the prospect of generations-long, interstellar space travel: Explorers arriving on…

Sweden's controversial decision not to lock down during COVID-19 produced more deaths and greater healthcare demand than seen in countries with earlier, more stringent interventions, a new analysis finds. But Sweden fared better than…

Credit: Gustavo Fring The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is changing the way it writes its guidelines for giving injections in hospitals, following groundbreaking research from the University of Bath. The Bath study, funded…

Infecting some volunteers with COVID-19 may provide valuable insights for future rounds of vaccine testing, but would require very strict controls, argues a group of infectious disease experts in the New England Journal of Medicine.…