May 10, 2021
(Associated Press) – COVID-19 vaccines finally are headed for more kids as U.S. regulators on Monday expanded use of Pfizer’s shot to those as young as 12, sparking a race to protect middle and high school students before they head … Read More
May 10, 2021
(New York Times) – Doctors in India are concerned about an increasing number of potentially fatal fungal infections affecting either people who have Covid-19 or those who have recently recovered from the disease. The condition, known as mucormycosis, has a … Read More
May 10, 2021
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 384, no. 4, 2021) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “At the Cusp — Reimagining Infective Endocarditis Care amid the Opioid Epidemic” by M.A. Incze “Toward a Medical ‘Ecology of Attention’” … Read More
May 10, 2021
Christian Bioethics (vol. 26, no. 2, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Christian Bioethics: Immanent Goals or a Transcendent Orientation?” by Mark J Cherry “Medicine and the Common Good in the Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition” by Kyle E Karches … Read More
May 7, 2021
(NPR) – For most people, COVID-19 vaccines promise a return to something akin to normal life. But for the hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. who have a transplanted organ, it’s a different story. That includes Burns, who … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Wired) – That the pandemic is escalating, 16 months after it started, lends urgency to a handful of efforts to extract the lessons of this crisis in time to prevent the next one. Some are political, pointing out ways countries … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Nature) – As more people get vaccinated, scientists and health officials are pondering how societies can live with the virus, and what level of risk they are willing to absorb. In some countries, such as Australia, the threshold is low. … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – The center of the global Covid-19 pandemic has shifted decisively to low- and middle- income countries, fueling sickness and death on a scale that trends suggest could quickly exceed the world-wide toll in 2020. Already this … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Participants in this summer’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will have access to donated doses of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccines, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday, as the Games’ organizers attempt to boost the … Read More
May 7, 2021
(Medscape) – A 68-year-old woman with COVID-19, who has been in intensive care in an Illinois hospital for a month, started receiving the controversial drug ivermectin (Stromectol) this week after her family sued the hospital to have someone administer it, … Read More
