#Medical Ethics
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🇺🇸 Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’
[USA]
A small stable of doctors gave V.I.P. medical services to the sex offender and the women around him. Some doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.
Related: #Wealth and Privilege, #Legal Compliance -
🇺🇸 Echoing RFK, Dr. Casey Means softens her social media persona in surgeon general bid
[USA]
Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer who rose to prominence by lambasting traditional medicine and accusing pharmaceutical companies of corruption, bore little resemblance to her online persona Wedn...
Related: #Political Nomination, #Health Policy, #Public Perception -
🇬🇧 Henrietta Lacks: Family of woman whose cells were 'stolen' settles second lawsuit
[United Kingdom]
Novartis is the second drug company to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman whose cells have enabled huge advances in science.
Related: #Racial Justice, #Informed Consent, #Scientific Advancement -
🇺🇸 Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells
[USA]
Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when she was dying of cervical cancer.
Related: #Patient Rights, #Bioethics -
🇬🇧 Assisted dying on Welsh NHS a step closer as Senedd votes in favour
[United Kingdom]
In major vote Senedd backs legislation which could allow for terminally ill people to end their lives.
Related: #Legislative Process, #Patient Rights -
🇬🇧 Trial into puberty blockers for children paused over 'wellbeing concerns'
[United Kingdom]
A clinical trial into puberty blockers has been paused after the medicines regulator raised "new concerns directly related to the wellbeing of children", the government said.
Related: #Gender Identity, #Child Healthcare, #Research Regulation -
🇺🇸 Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth
[USA]
NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory environment” in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors.
Related: #Healthcare Policy, #Transgender Rights -
🇺🇸 Peter Attia’s Ties to Epstein Spark a Backlash From Doctors
[USA]
What started as a rebuke of Dr. Attia has become a discussion about his credentials, longevity medicine and whom patients should trust.
Related: #Accountability, #Longevity Medicine -
🇺🇸 Lindsey Vonn's choice to race Olympic downhill on injured knee questioned after crash
[USA]
Lindsey Vonn's crash in the Olympic downhill has sparked debate over whether she should have raced with a severely injured knee
Related: #Sports Safety, #Olympic Games -
🇺🇸 AI chatbots versus human healthcare professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis of empathy in patient care
[USA]
arXiv:2602.05628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Empathy is widely recognized for improving patient outcomes, including reduced pain and anxiety and improved satisfaction, and its absenc...
Related: #Healthcare Technology, #Artificial Intelligence -
🇺🇸 Federal Vaccine Advisers Take Aim at Covid Shots
[USA]
One panelist accused the F.D.A. of withholding data on potential harms. The advisers also are reviewing research on vaccines given to pregnant women.
Related: #Public Health, #Government Oversight -
🇺🇸 Renowned surgeon allegedly faked records to block patients' liver transplants
[USA]
A Houston doctor has been indicted on charges of falsifying medical records for five patients, making them ineligible to receive a liver transplant, federal prosecutors say.
Related: #Healthcare Fraud, #Patient Rights, #Transplant System Integrity -
🇺🇸 The Depraved Heart Murder
[USA]
A surgeon is accused of drugging his girlfriend in order to control her. "48 Hours" contributor Nikki Battiste reports.
Related: #Domestic Abuse, #Criminal Justice