Bioética
Opinião | Epidemiologia, e não geopolítica, devem guiar as doações de vacinas contra a COVID-19.
10 Jun, 2021 | 09:10hEpidemiology, 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 | 09:08hEmbrace the WHO’s new naming system for coronavirus variants – Nature
Em geral, casos de processos na radiologia envolvem erros diagnósticos relacionados a câncer.
10 Jun, 2021 | 08:56hRadiology 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 | 10:27hAre 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 #coronavirushttps://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 | 10:24hComentários: 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
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 | 08:20hWHO: 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 | 09:55hComunicado de imprensa: ACP offers guidance on physician suicide prevention and the role of a healing community from an ethics perspective – American College of Physicians
Editor-chefe do JAMA deixa o cargo após a repercussão de um podcast que questionava o racismo na medicina.
2 Jun, 2021 | 10:17hVer 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
OMS renomeia as variantes da COVID-19 com letras do alfabeto grego (alfa, beta, gama, etc.), tornando-as mais simples, fáceis de falar e de lembrar. O objetivo é evitar dar às variantes os nomes dos locais onde foram detectadas, o que é estigmatizante e discriminatório.
1 Jun, 2021 | 10:33hTracking SARS-CoV-2 variants – World Health Organization
Comentários: The name game for coronavirus variants just got a little easier – STAT E Covid: WHO renames UK and other variants with Greek letters – BBC