Bioética

Opinião | Eu dirigi a OMS e sei que os países ricos têm que fazer uma escolha.

14 Jun, 2021 | 11:14h

I Run the W.H.O., and I Know That Rich Countries Must Make a Choice – The New York Times

Opinião | Epidemiologia, e não geopolítica, devem guiar as doações de vacinas contra a COVID-19.

10 Jun, 2021 | 09:10h

Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations – The Lancet

Comentário no Twitter (fio – clique para saber mais)

Maximizing potential benefit of vaccine donations depends on doses going where they can do the"most good" but there's no consensus on where that would be

Murray @IHME_UW @RCReinerJr & I propose an approach that prioritizes epidemiology over geopolitics 1/https://t.co/OxOXLr5L55

— Tom Bollyky (@TomBollyky) June 9, 2021

Editorial | Adote o novo sistema da OMS para nomear as variantes do coronavírus.

10 Jun, 2021 | 09:08h

Embrace the WHO’s new naming system for coronavirus variants – Nature

Relacionado: WHO renames COVID-19 variants with the Greek alphabet (i.e., Alpha, Beta, Gamma, etc), making them simple, easy to say and remember. The naming system aims to prevent calling COVID-19 variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing & discriminatory.

Em geral, casos de processos na radiologia envolvem erros diagnósticos relacionados a câncer.

10 Jun, 2021 | 08:56h

Radiology malpractice cases most often involve cancer-related diagnostic errors – Health Imaging

Estudo original: Oncologic Errors in Diagnostic Radiology: A 10-Year Analysis Based on Medical Malpractice Claims – Journal of the American College of Radiology (link para o resumo – $ para o texto completo)

“Challenge Trials” com SARS-CoV-2 são éticos? – “Um ensaio clínico realizado no Reino Unido está expondo deliberadamente participantes jovens e saudáveis ao SARS-CoV-2 para avaliar a inoculação viral necessária para produzir infecção e testar a eficácia de vacinas.”

8 Jun, 2021 | 10:27h

Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – JAMA Internal Medicine

Relacionado: World’s first coronavirus “Human Challenge” study receives ethics approval in the UK (vários textos sobre o assunto)

Comentário no Twitter

I am not convinced of #SARSCoV2 #ChallengeTrials. You should not pay volunteers. If things go wrong, there is no effective treatment. What will be learnt from mild disease, when you are interested in severe disease? #COVID19 #Covid #Corona #coronavirus https://t.co/JjXDJDfOl2

— Martin Michaelis (@MartMichaelis) June 8, 2021

Investigação | Covid-19: Como a indústria do tabaco aproveitou a pandemia para promover a nicotina.

7 Jun, 2021 | 10:24h

Covid 19: How harm reduction advocates and the tobacco industry capitalised on the pandemic to promote nicotine – The BMJ

Comentários: Researchers report how the tobacco and e-cigarette industry capitalized on COVID-19 to promote smoking – News Medical E Investigation discredits studies suggesting lower COVID-19 risk for smokers

Desafios e soluções para médicas que são mães: uma revisão crítica da literatura.

7 Jun, 2021 | 10:20h

Challenges and Solutions for Physician Mothers: A Critical Review of the Literature – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Comentário no Twitter

Challenges and Solutions for Physician Mothers: A Critical Review of the Literature in @MayoProceedings
By @sherry_chesak @anjalibhagramd et al.#WomenInMedicine @AMWADoctors https://t.co/RXvXt739PN pic.twitter.com/7aNuA9JVJQ

— Mayo Clinic GRIT (@MayoGRIT) April 9, 2021

OMS: A vacinação de crianças “não é uma grande prioridade” em meio à escassez de vacinas.

4 Jun, 2021 | 08:20h

WHO: Vaccinating kids ‘not a high priority’ amid shortage – Associated Press

Relacionado: WHO: Wealthy nations urged to delay youth Covid vaccines, donate to solidarity scheme E Editorial: Vaccinating children against SARS-CoV-2 – “Hard to justify right now for most children in most countries”. E Opinion | American Kids Can Wait – “The U.S. should delay shots for children until global vaccine-manufacturing capacity significantly expands and the crisis in India subsides”. E Vaccinating children before poor morally wrong, Oxford scientist says – BBC

ACP dá diretrizes sobre a prevenção do suicídio entre médicos.

3 Jun, 2021 | 09:55h

Comunicado de imprensa: ACP offers guidance on physician suicide prevention and the role of a healing community from an ethics perspective – American College of Physicians

Estudo original: Physician Suicide Prevention and the Ethics and Role of a Healing Community: an American College of Physicians Policy Paper – Journal of General Internal Medicine

Editor-chefe do JAMA deixa o cargo após a repercussão de um podcast que questionava o racismo na medicina.

2 Jun, 2021 | 10:17h

JAMA editor-in-chief stepping down after backlash from podcast that questioned racism in medicine – STAT

Ver também: JAMA editor in chief steps down over tweet that questioned racism in medicine – MarketWatch E The Editor Of A Top Medical Journal Is Leaving After The Publication Said “No Physician Is Racist” – Buzzfeed News

Editorial do JAMA: To Howard Bauchner, MD, Visionary Editor in Chief of JAMA—A Sincere Thank You and a Fond Farewell