Medical/Scientific Ethics

Researchers at Columbia University have developed AwareDX--Analysing Women At Risk for Experiencing Drug toXicity--a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts differences in adverse drug effects between men and women by…

New study demonstrates its potential PHILADELPHIA (September 29, 2020) - Serious traumatic injuries are a health event that can begin a trajectory toward chronic health and social challenges. Research on patient outcomes following…

Yet there is ambivalence in many publics over developments in AI, workplace automation, food science WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 29, 2020) - As publics around the world look to scientists and the research and development process to bring new…

AURORA, Colo. (Sept. 24, 2020) - Some forms of blindness and visual impairment can be cured with a corneal transplant surgery using donated eye tissue. However, federal regulations in the United States and Canada severely restrict the…

Adults conceived through sperm donation reported higher frequencies of allergies, type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune conditions in a world-first study that examined the long term health outcomes of donor-conceived peopleCredit: Flinders…

Social science researchers offer recommendations for navigating ethical dilemmas in studying global societies.Credit: Kathrine Starkweather A group of social scientists who conduct cross-cultural research are casting a critical…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 17, 2020) - Opioid use disorder and overdose have reached unprecedented levels around the world. In the United States, remediation of pain is one of the most common reasons American…

Big Data in health and research holds an immense potential for clinical applications, especially for data-driven computational models in personalized medicine. However, despite the ever-increasing technical and scientific advances in…

New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information PITTSBURGH--The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of research studies that it is hard for anyone to digest them all,…

One-size-fits-all educational content unlikely to be effective in promoting acceptance of best available COVID-19 evidence Washington, September 10, 2020--The effectiveness of educational content aimed at correcting misconceptions about…

Researchers say physicians need to understand accurate nicotine risks better to assist patients addicted to the most harmful tobacco products According to a Rutgers-led national survey, most doctors misperceive the risks of nicotine, the…

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 9, 2020) - Confronting the uncomfortable reality of systemic racism - the system that creates and maintains racial inequality in every facet of life for people of color - is having a…

Stanford computer scientists and clinicians show how AI-controlled sensors could reduce fatal medical errors and improve patient outcomes As many as 400,000 Americans die each year because of medical errors, but many of these deaths could…

Strength of the average prescription is at levels linked to an increased risk of overdose deathCredit: Texas A&M University Health Science Center New research from Texas A&M University and the University of Pennsylvania on…

Credit: Charlie Ehlert Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die of COVID-19, according to researchers at the University of Utah. They…

CAMBRIDGE, MA - September 2, 2020--Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), is an open-access overlay journal published by the MIT Press that accelerates peer review of COVID-19-related research preprints to advance new and important findings and…

As domestic violence skyrockets amid COVID-19, women's health experts are calling for compulsory training of obstetric health practitioners to ensure they can recognise the signs of coercive control for women in their care. The…

Researchers describe ways to achieve optimal patient advocacy for kidney recipients and donors during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (LOS ANGELES) - In a newly published paper, the authors first paint the vision of what optimal patient…

Penn-led team of global experts offer a model that would prioritize reducing premature deaths PHILADELPHIA - When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce. The World Health Organization (WHO),…

Solving the Opioid Crisis Isn't Just a Public Health Challenge--It's a Bioethics Challenge Travis N. Rieder It is popular, Rieder observes, to claim that we know what we, as a society, ought to do to solve America's opioid crisis--we…