Months before the US Food and Drug Administration even authorized the first Covid-19 vaccine, there were many conversations and debates going on about who should be put at the front of the line to get it. Different advisory panels and patient advocacy groups came out with suggested recommendations.
At the time, it all seemed so logical. But soon after the first vaccines were authorized by the FDA, things started to become a bit confusing.
Spain has passed a law to legalise euthanasia, becoming the fourth country in Europe to allow people to end their own life in some circumstances.
Meet Ian Jenkins and his partners, Alan and Jeremy. They’re a „throuple“: a committed polyamorous relationship involving three people. And after a complicated and expensive court battle to all become legal parents, the trio are raising two toddlers in Southern California — and proving how families come in all forms.
The white van arrived in slum areas of Bhopal, a city in central India, blasting a message over the speaker system that seemed too good to refuse: „Come and take the coronavirus vaccine and get 750 rupees ($10).“ More than a dozen Bhopal trial participants told CNN they did not know they were taking part in a clinical trial. Another four knew they were part of a trial, but say they did not understand what that meant.
Mokytojų bendruomenėje verdant aistroms dėl skiepijimo nuo COVID-19, daugėja atsisakančiųjų vakcinavimo. Sveikatos apsaugos viceministrė Ž. Simonaitytė sakė, kad klausimas dėl atsisakymo skiepytis kilo ir vakcinuojant medikus. „Atsakymo ieškoti turbūt turi ieškoti Žmogaus teisių komitetas. Kur yra riba tarp žmogaus teisės atsisakyti skiepytis ir testuotis ir pareigos neužkrėsti kito žmogaus? Kur yra riba tarp žmogaus pareigos teikti paslaugą ir neužkrėsti asmens, kuriam ta paslauga teikiama. Tai ne Vyriausybės, ne konkrečios ministerijos kompetencijos klausimas. Tai ir Konstitucijos klausimas“, – kalbėjo viceministrė.
Scientists have cloned an endangered US animal for the first time, creating a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann from the frozen cells of an ancestor in a landmark achievement that boosts conservation efforts. She was born to a surrogate mother in December, and scientists hope she will eventually be able to mate and help rescue the species from the brink of extinction.
Healthy, young volunteers will be infected with coronavirus to test vaccines and treatments in the world’s first Covid-19 „human challenge“ study, which will take place in the UK. The study, which has received ethics approval, will recruit 90 people aged 18-30.
More than 82% of American doctors say they believe patients with significant disabilities have a worse quality of life than people who don’t have disabilities, according to a new study. Those negative perceptions can have big impacts on the quality of care patients with disabilities receive.
Doctors in New York have performed the world’s first successful face and double hand transplant. Two face and double hand transplants have taken place before but both were unsuccessful. One patient died from complications and the other had their hands removed after they failed to thrive, the hospital said.
In the last few years, research has shown that deep learning can match expert-level performance in medical imaging tasks like early cancer detection and eye disease diagnosis. But there’s also cause for caution. Other research has shown that deep learning has a tendency to perpetuate discrimination. With a health-care system already riddled with disparities, sloppy applications of deep learning could make that worse.
Now a new paper published in Nature Medicine is proposing a way to develop medical algorithms that might help reverse, rather than exacerbate, existing inequality.
