Clinical Ethics, Pharmaceuticals
Harm Reduction: A Weak Justification For Obesity Drugs And Surgery
In the United States, nearly 41 percent of the population is obese. In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics ap...
Subject: Pharmaceuticals
End of Life Care, Pharmaceuticals
The Code Blue Pharmacist
A patient coded at my hospital without having clear guidelines about what he wanted for treatment plan. It left the hosp...
Pharmaceuticals, Public Health
Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs Via Pre-approval Access and Emergency Use Authorization
Abstract Allocating access to unapproved COVID-19 drugs available via Pre-Approval Access pathways or Emergency Use Auth...
Publish date:Clinical Trials & Studies, COVID-19 pandemic, Decision making, Global Ethics, Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines
AstaZeneca’s Vaccine Ethical Problem
Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD In The New York Times, almost overlooked amidst multiple arti...
Pharmaceuticals, Public Health
Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs Via Pre-approval Access and Emergency Use Authorization
Abstract Allocating access to unapproved COVID-19 drugs available via Pre-Approval Access pathways or Emergency Use Auth...
Publish date:Pharmaceuticals, Research Ethics
The Limits of Individualism: Potential Societal Harms from the EAP for Convalescent Plasma
Abstract This issue features a set of articles addressing allocation issues for drugs for COVID-19 that have not been ap...
Publish date:Clinical Trials & Studies, Pharmaceuticals, Science
Vaccine Approval and Public Trust: The Dynamic Factors Influencing When a COVID-19 Vaccine...
by Berklee Robins, MD, MA & Ashley Sweet, MD, MBE Vaccines are approved when it is clear that the benefits to the in...
Health Regulation & Law, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health
Emergency Use Authorization for Covid-19 Vaccines: Lessons from the Past
by Dorit Reiss, PhD LLB, Art Caplan, PhD, and Working Group on Vaccine Ethics and Policy The question whether the F...
Health Regulation & Law, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Pharmaceuticals
Statement of Support for the FDA
The Working Group on Compassionate Use and Preapproval Access (CUPA), a project of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine D...
Informed Consent, Pediatrics, Pharmaceuticals, Professional Ethics, Professionalism
Shared Decision Making with Pediatric Medications
by Amy C. Reese, Pharm.D. My pharmacy received a prescription for prednisolone solution written for a 5-year-old patient...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Pharmaceuticals, Politics
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Problem of Pseudoscience
by Kiarash Aramesh M.D., Ph.D. The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by a surge of pseudoscientific claims, sometim...
Clinical Trials & Studies, Ethics, Health Care, Health Policy & Insurance, Human Subjects Research & IRBs, Informed Consent, Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Public Health
My Experiences with Hydroxychloroquine Urge Caution and Ethical Research into COVID19 Ther...
by Keisha Ray, Ph.D. I take the drug hydroxychloroquine, brand name Plaquenil, for an autoimmune disease. Hydroxychloroq...