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
(Bloomberg) – Two vaccine mandates imposed on health workers in New York state and New York City teachers were temporarily blocked by judges. State court judge Laurence L. Love issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday barring New York City’s health … 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 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 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
(Wall Street Journal) – Many parents across the U.S. are racing to put their children in Covid-19 vaccine trials to try to protect them from the virus sooner rather than later. The shots haven’t been proved to work safely for … 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 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 15, 2021
(Associated Press) – About 3,000 Los Angeles Police Department employees are citing religious objections to try to get out of the required COVID-19 vaccination. In Washington state, thousands of state workers are seeking similar exemptions. And an Arkansas hospital has … Read More
September 15, 2021
(STAT News) – Food and Drug Administration scientists have expressed skepticism about the need for additional doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for all people who have received it. The assessment by the agency’s staff, included in documents released Wednesday, sets … Read More
