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Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

Nurses in both the U.S. and U.K. flexed their bargaining muscle over the last few weeks amid increasing pressure on the countries’ respective health care system due to COVID-19. About 7,000 nurses from two New York City hospitals, Mount Sinai Hospital and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, returned to work on January 12 after [...]

By |2023-01-13T05:25:07+00:00January 13th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on Why the U.S. Nursing Shortage Keeps Getting Worse

The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI

Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models? Each day, around 350 people in the United States die from lung cancer. Many of those deaths could be prevented by screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans. But scanning millions of people would produce millions of images, [...]

By |2023-01-13T05:23:23+00:00January 13th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI

Would You Zap Yourself With Electricity to Get Into Shape?

WALL STREET JOURNAL–The result is a more efficient way to build muscle mass and strength, say proponents, who claim that one 20-minute session of whole-body zapping achieves the same benefits as two and half hours of conventional strength training. In the U.S., the workouts are offered by about 400 fitness centers, spas and other outlets, and [...]

By |2023-01-13T05:22:07+00:00January 13th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on Would You Zap Yourself With Electricity to Get Into Shape?

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – 4 January 2023

WHO–Globally, more than 3 million new cases and 10 000 deaths have been reported in the week of 26 December 2022 to 1 January 2023. This represents a reduction in weekly cases and deaths of 22% and 12%, respectively. In the last 28 days (5 December 2022 to 1 January 2023), over 14.5 million cases [...]

By |2023-01-05T14:52:27+00:00January 5th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – 4 January 2023

EU, Beijing heading for collision over China’s COVID crisis

The European Union and China on Tuesday moved closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis, with Beijing vehemently rejecting travel restrictions some EU nations have started to impose that could be expanded in coming days. An EU offer of help, including vaccine donations, was also as good as slapped down, with Beijing insisting the situation [...]

By |2023-01-05T14:49:11+00:00January 5th, 2023|News-Letters|Comments Off on EU, Beijing heading for collision over China’s COVID crisis

Popular Culture and Bioethics: Severance

Severance, a popular Emmy Award-winning show streaming on Apple TV+, is a rich cultural artifact. It concerns a team of office workers at a morally questionable company that performs brain surgery on employees to sever the consciousness of their work and personal lives. The four of us were so taken by the show that we wrote [...]

By |2022-11-08T23:55:39+00:00November 8th, 2022|News-Letters|Comments Off on Popular Culture and Bioethics: Severance

What is the limit for posthumous sperm donation?

A baby has been born in the United Kingdom from 26-year-old sperm. His 47-year-old father, Peter Hickles, describes it as a miracle. “ The fact that he was basically ready to go just before Euro 96 and was born before the World Cup is amazing,” he told The Guardian. Mr Hickles froze his sperm in 1996 [...]

By |2022-11-07T18:53:42+00:00November 7th, 2022|News-Letters|Comments Off on What is the limit for posthumous sperm donation?

Biden pins election hopes on abortion rights

President Joe Biden has made abortion a cornerstone of his mid-term campaigning. In a speech at a Democratic National Committee event in Washington last week, he promised the first bill he will send to Congress after the mid-terms will be a codification of Roe v. Wade, restoring a right to abortion across the country. Read [...]

By |2022-11-07T18:51:45+00:00November 7th, 2022|News-Letters|Comments Off on Biden pins election hopes on abortion rights

Hospitalizations on the rise in New York City as new COVID strains spread rapidly

Hospitalizations are rising again in New York City with the spread of new COVID-19 subvariants that are better at evading immunity. Cases of flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, are also increasing. Read more here.

By |2022-11-07T18:50:22+00:00November 7th, 2022|News-Letters|Comments Off on Hospitalizations on the rise in New York City as new COVID strains spread rapidly

Will there be a COVID winter wave? What scientists say

Evidence is building that the northern hemisphere is on course for a surge of COVID-19 cases this autumn and winter. New immune-evading strains of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, behaviour changes, and waning immunity mean that many countries could soon see large numbers of COVID infections — and potentially hospitalizations — say scientists. Read more here.

By |2022-10-06T16:27:43+00:00October 6th, 2022|News-Letters|Comments Off on Will there be a COVID winter wave? What scientists say