September 17, 2021
(ABC News) – The World Health Organization’s director general on Friday expressed deep concern about the impact of Lebanon’s economic meltdown and multiple crises on the wellbeing of the nation, and said the brain drain among the country’s health workers … Read More
September 17, 2021
(The Diplomat) – India, which has the oldest family planning program in the world, is a key stakeholder in various global commitments on the matter. However, it has not always been successful in moving the needle from family planning to … Read More
September 17, 2021
(UN News) – States should place moratoriums on the sale and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems until adequate safeguards are put in place, UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday. Urgent action is needed as it can … Read More
September 17, 2021
Medico-Legal Journal (vol. 89, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Legislative Preparedness for the Control of Pandemics – Using Taiwan as an Example” by Yi-Chen Su “Covid-19 and the Healthcare Professionals of the Future” by … Read More
September 17, 2021
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 47, no. 3, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “COVID-19 Ventilator Rationing Protocols: Why We Need to Know More about the Views of Those with Most to Lose” by Whitney Kerr and Harald Schmidt … Read More
September 16, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Scores of internal Facebook documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show employees raising alarms about how its platforms are used in some developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding. They also … Read More
September 16, 2021
(The Guardian) – France has suspended 3,000 health workers without pay for refusing the Covid vaccine. The health minister, Olivier Véran, said the staff had been notified in writing before the government-imposed deadline to have at least one dose. Véran … Read More
September 16, 2021
Hastings Center Report (vol. 51, no. 1, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “A Heart without Life: Artificial Organs and the Lived Body” by Mary Jean Walker “Weighted Lotteries and the Allocation of Scarce Medications for Covid?19” … Read More
September 16, 2021
Clinical Ethics (vol. 16, no. 1, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Do Moral Development Levels of the Nurses Affect their Ethical Decision Making? A Descriptive Correlational Study” by Sümeyye Arslan, Sinem Türer Öztik and Nevin Kuzu … Read More
September 15, 2021
(NPR) – People applying to immigrate to the U.S. will have to show they’ve been vaccination against COVID-19 as part of a required medical exam, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says. The new policy takes effect on Oct. 1. … Read More
