medical ethics

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In India, Medical Crowdfunding Sails Under a Pall of Sensationalism

Yashvardhan Rana 02/11/2022

Despite the obvious benefits, depicting people in desperate need...

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The Science of Placebos Is Fueling Quackery

Fabrizio Benedetti 16/07/2022

The placebo effect is real. So are the ethical...

Schools reopen in Moradabad

One Lesson of COVID-19: Conduct More Health Policy Trials

Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Astrid Berner-Rodoreda, Shannon A. McMahon, Malabika Sarker, Frank Tanser, Till Bärnighausen, Daniel Wikler and Nir Eyal 24/06/2022

At the height of the pandemic, a health policy...

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How Do You Catch Mistakes in a Clinical Trial? An Ethics Expert Explains.

Shreya Dasgupta 28/03/2021

Photo: Dan Asaki/Unsplash. Bengaluru: As the world scrambled to...

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. Photo:Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

Can Scientists Who Conduct Vaccine Trials Negotiate for Post-Trial Access?

Keymanthri Moodley and Theresa Rossouw 11/02/2021

Post-trial access and benefit sharing should extend to the...

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares a vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as Israel continues its national vaccination drive, in East Jerusalem

India Approves Two Vaccine Candidates, But Let’s Not Pretend Everything Is Okay

Vasudevan Mukunth 02/01/2021

India stands at the cusp of one of the...

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Mumbai

Where in India’s COVID-19 Response Is the Moral Compass That Guides Governance?

Usha Raman 01/08/2020

The American bioethics professor Joseph Fins called the COVID-19...