Bioética

[Preprint] Resultados do primeiro “challenge study” sobre Covid-19 em humanos (infectar indivíduos deliberadamente em um ambiente controlado).

4 Fev, 2022 | 16:50h

Safety, tolerability and viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge – Research Square

Comentários:

Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt – Nature

Expert reaction to a preprint looking at the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a COVID-19 human challenge study – Science Media Centre

First COVID-19 human challenge study yields infection clues – CIDRAP

Exposure to one nasal droplet enough for Covid infection – study – The Guardian

Conteúdos relacionados:

Perspective | SARS-CoV-2 human challenge studies — establishing the model during an evolving pandemic.

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

Are SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge Trials Ethical? – “A clinical trial is underway in the UK in which young, healthy participants are exposed deliberately to SARS-CoV-2 to assess the viral inoculum needed to produce an infection and to test vaccine efficacy”.

Perspectiva | As origens, o desenvolvimento e o contexto da Comissão do Lancet sobre o Valor da Morte – “A morte deixou de ser um evento familiar, social e cultural para se tornar, sobretudo, um evento médico.”

4 Fev, 2022 | 16:42h

The origins, development, and context of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death – The BMJ

Conteúdo relacionado: The Lancet Commission: Experts warn of the increasing overmedicalization of death, call for radical rethink of how society cares for dying people.

Crescentes pagamentos financeiros da indústria farmacêutica para médicos oncologistas nos EUA, 2014-2017.

4 Fev, 2022 | 16:24h

Increasing Financial Payments from Industry to Medical Oncologists in the United States, 2014-2017 – Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Comentário convidado: Physician Interactions With Industry: Striking the Right Balance – Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Comentário de estudo | Rótulos diagnósticos na doença mental: úteis ou prejudiciais?

4 Fev, 2022 | 15:30h

Diagnostic labels: helpful or harmful? – The Mental Elf

Estudo original: How does diagnostic labelling affect social responses to people with mental illness? A systematic review of experimental studies using vignette-based designs – Journal of Mental Health

Conteúdo relacionado: Consequences of a diagnostic label: A systematic scoping review and thematic framework.

Opinião | “O uso de escores de risco poligênico em testes de pré-implantação genética: uma prática não provada e antiética.”

28 Jan, 2022 | 15:27h

The use of polygenic risk scores in pre-implantation genetic testing: an unproven, unethical practice – European Journal of Human Genetics

Comentário: ‘Unproven and unethical’: experts warn against genetic embryo tests – The Guardian

O xenotransplante está de volta ao centro das atenções.

25 Jan, 2022 | 14:37h

After a flurry of firsts, xenotransplantation is suddenly back in the spotlight – STAT

Conteúdo relacionado: In 1st, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient.

Grupo de especialistas em emergências da OMS reafirma posição contra os “passaportes de vacina” para viagens internacionais.

21 Jan, 2022 | 15:53h

WHO’s Emergencies Expert Group Re-Asserts Stance Against COVID ‘Vaccine Passports’ for International Travel – Health Policy Watch

Editorial | Vacinas contra Covid-19 e tratamentos: devemos ter os dados brutos, agora.

21 Jan, 2022 | 15:52h

Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now – The BMJ

Comunicado de imprensa: Editors call for covid-19 vaccine and treatment data to be available for public scrutiny – The BMJ

Como tomar decisões para os bebês extremamente prematuros, com suas famílias?

20 Jan, 2022 | 22:45h

How do we make decisions for the most immature babies, with their families? – Neonatal Research

Opinião | O contrato social do risco de COVID está em negociação.

20 Jan, 2022 | 22:16h

The COVID-Risk Social Contract Is Under Negotiation – The Atlantic (poucos artigos gratuitos por mês)