April 2, 2020
(Dallas Morning News) – Social distancing works. Now we have empirical evidence to prove it. A San Francisco-based company called Kinsa Health makes internet-connected thermometers and uses the data to track the rate of fever. With more than one million … Read More
April 1, 2020
(Reuters) – He doesn’t wear a mask but he is helping save lives from coronavirus just the same. Meet Tommy, the robot nurse.Tommy is one of six new robots helping flesh-and-blood doctors and nurses care for coronavirus patients at the … Read More
April 1, 2020
(Knowledge Magazine) – Such alerts reveal the promise of a vast yet risky resource: the tweet-sized hints from people all over the world who report their health status and vent their fears online. Some researchers are calling on public health … 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 30, 2020
(IEEE Spectrum) – As COVID-19 sweeps through the planet, a number of researchers have advocated the use of digital contact tracing to reduce the spread of the disease. The controversial technique can be effective, but can have disastrous consequences if … Read More
March 27, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Getting heath care by phone or video conferencing has been around for several decades, but the outbreak of coronavirus has led to an increase in telemedicine use as never seen before, according to health systems and … Read More
March 24, 2020
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 29, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “In Memoriam. Dan Callahan: Writing a Life in Bioethics” by Joseph J. Fins “Xenia: Refugees, Displaced Persons and Reciprocity” by John Harris … Read More
March 24, 2020
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include: “Ethical Values Supporting the Disclosure of Incidental and Secondary Findings in Clinical Genomic Testing: A Qualitative Study” by Marlies Saelaert et al. “Addressing Harm in Moral Case Deliberation: The Views … Read More
March 23, 2020
(Wired) – Officials have a powerful potential surveillance tool unavailable in past epidemics: smartphones. Government officials are anxious to tap the information from phones to help monitor and blunt the pandemic. White House officials are asking tech companies for more … Read More
March 18, 2020
(Wired) – Still, the plan may test people’s attitudes toward privacy and government surveillance, amid growing concerns about the ways in which big tech companies track their users. Some companies already share some aggregate data, but it would be new … Read More
