May 15, 2020
(Quartz) – Zoom meetings. FaceTime calls. Birthday parties, coffee chats, game nights, and happy hours over video chat. As work and life events go remote, people are increasingly sharing the feeling of “Zoom fatigue.” Little do they know they’re experiencing … Read More
May 8, 2020
(New York Times) – Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus, which has torn through group homes. But the virus also poses a threat to adults with these disabilities who still live with … Read More
May 6, 2020
(STAT News) – Hospitals and physicians around the country are sharply criticizing the federal government for the uneven and opaque way it is distributing its supply of the Covid-19 drug remdesivir. The experimental drug received an emergency use authorization from … Read More
April 29, 2020
(NPR) – The new norms of the coronavirus era — wearing face masks, maintaining social distance and conducting conversations through teleconference software — have made life more complicated for most Americans. But for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, they have transformed … Read More
April 27, 2020
(CNN) – Doctors in the Netherlands may legally euthanize patients with severe dementia who previously provided a written request for the procedure, the country’s highest court ruled Tuesday. In the landmark decision, the court said that a physician may respond … Read More
April 22, 2020
(BBC) – A woman with learning disabilities should be fitted with a contraceptive device against her will, a judge ruled. Specialists told Mrs Justice Gwynneth Knowles the woman, who has given birth to a number of children and had them … Read More
April 16, 2020
(USA Today) – As the number of COVID-19 cases and corresponding deaths accelerates across the country, one of America’s most vulnerable – and most overlooked – groups of citizens worry not just about how to get food and pay rent … Read More
April 3, 2020
(WFAA) – According to Dallas County Health and Human Services, 28% of COVID-19 patients who have required hospitalization in Dallas County are diabetic. While the state of Texas says it does not yet have data to provide trends showing diabetes … Read More
April 1, 2020
Nursing Ethics (vol. 27, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Normative Nursing Ethics: A Literature Review and Tentative Recommendations” by Eric Vogelstein and Alison Colbert “The New Futility? The Rhetoric and Role of “Suffering” In … Read More
March 31, 2020
(The Guardian) – Reading minds has just come a step closer to reality: scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. While the system currently works on neural patterns detected while someone is speaking aloud, experts … Read More
