It comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the virus and the disease it causes. Continued reference to the virus as African is both inaccurate and discriminatory, they said. Some 1,600 cases of the disease have been recorded globally in recent weeks. While [...]
For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered funeral expenses for the deceased. The payments were vital to survivors of the victims in a time and place ravaged [...]
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The field that came to be known as bioethics in the late 1960’s is an integral part of the liberal international order intentionally developed in the aftermath of the catastrophe of World War II. Following the Russian war in Ukraine there is every reason to believe that the set of norms and institutions that [...]
Bioethics Education International (BEI) invites participants (students and professionals) across the globe to attend the summer school to be held from July 18 to 23, 2022. The summer school includes lectures and seminars, film screenings, and special guest speakers. Stay tuned for the program to be posted next week! The faculty will include experts and scholars with international reputations [...]
Bavarian Nordic’s smallpox vaccine is approved for use against monkeypox by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada. Bavarian Nordic A/S announced today the signing of a number of supply contracts with undisclosed countries for the company’s smallpox vaccine with the aim to ensure sufficient supply to meet the requirements for vaccinating [...]
The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday was the second-deadliest school shooting since 1970. But in the aftermath of Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook and the nearly 1,000 other school shootings since 2012, advocates for nationwide gun control measures, like universal background checks and banning assault rifles, have run into political realities that have stopped these efforts from moving [...]
While COVID-19 has not yet officially been declared over, this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos is already analysing the black box data from the pandemic to find ways to future-proof the world against another global health crisis.Read more here
A grim milestone has been crossed today in the war in Ukraine – more than 100 attacks on health care verified by WHO since the start of the war on 24 February. The attacks so far have claimed 73 lives and injured 51.Of the current total of 103 attacks, 89 have impacted health facilities and [...]
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday calling for Russia to be suspended from the Human Rights Council. Read more here
