April 9, 2020
(Nature) – How does COVID-19 kill? Uncertainty over whether it is the virus itself — or the response by a person’s immune system — that ultimately overwhelms a patient’s organs, is making it difficult for doctors to determine the best … Read More
April 9, 2020
(STAT News) – A randomized controlled trial ramping up in dozens of hospitals around the world proposes a third way — fusing those two approaches together by using artificial intelligence to home in on the most effective treatments on the … Read More
April 9, 2020
(MIT Technology Review) – In a new partnership with Delphi, both tech giants have agreed to help gather data from those who voluntarily choose to report whether they’re experiencing covid-like symptoms. Facebook will target a fraction of their US users … Read More
April 9, 2020
(Vox) – Now, a bioethicist and two epidemiologists are proposing a bolder option: You can volunteer to get infected yourself. In a recent article published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, bioethicist Nir Eyal and epidemiologists Marc Lipsitch and Peter … Read More
April 8, 2020
(STAT News) – This month, the world should get the first results from a clinical trial testing the drug remdesivir against Covid-19. They will get a lot of attention. Remdesivir, made by the California biotech Gilead Sciences, is one of … Read More
April 7, 2020
(Wired) – On Monday, 23andMe launched a new study intended to illuminate any genetic differences that might help explain why people who’ve contracted Covid-19 have such varying responses to the infection. The consumer genomics company joins a number of emerging … Read More
April 7, 2020
(STAT News) – A series of crucial setbacks in Covid-19 testing has made it difficult to keep up with the virus’ rapid spread, and has inspired some researchers to look to wastewater to help fill in the gap of measuring … Read More
April 7, 2020
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 45, no. 12, 2019) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Evidence First, Practice Second in Arthroscopic Surgery: Use of Placebo Surgery in Randomised Controlled Trial” by Kazuha Kizaki, Lisa J Schwartz, and Olufemi … Read More
April 6, 2020
(BBC) – The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned as “racist” the comments by two French doctors who suggested a vaccine for the coronavirus could be tested in Africa. “Africa can’t and won’t be a testing ground … Read More
April 6, 2020
(Bloomberg) – Pharmaceutical-research experts are raising concerns that attempts to offer desperate coronavirus patients some form of treatment may hobble crucial studies of which drugs actually work and which ones don’t. More than 100 off-the-shelf and experimental therapies are being … Read More
