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Who is the girl behind the face of CPR?
She is the face that many have kissed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training and she has saved millions of lives, but who is she and what is her story?
Dec 10, 2020
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News tagged with ethical questions
Health
The ethics of human challenge trials
The first human challenge trial to test COVID-19 treatments and vaccines is set to begin in January in the United Kingdom. These trials, in which healthy volunteers are infected with the virus after being given different ...
Dec 09, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The complex ethics of reopening America
Since the pandemic reached U.S. shores, public health experts and government officials have stressed aggressive social distancing policies in order to "flatten the curve" and reduce the spread of COVID-19 and prevent the ...
May 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Banning nursing home visitors during coronavirus raises ethical questions with no simple answers
Physically, older people are among those most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Apr 15, 2020
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Neuroscience
Lab-grown mini brains: They could one day outsmart us
The cutting-edge method of growing clusters of cells that organize themselves into mini versions of human brains in the lab is gathering more and more attention. These "brain organoids," made from stem cells, offer unparalleled ...
Oct 25, 2019
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Health
Sharing fitness data with insurance companies
From the Fitbit to Apple's smartwatch, wearable tech is becoming increasingly popular across the globe. Compared to other nations like US, which has seen higher adoption of fitness trackers, uptake in Australia is still less ...
Jul 08, 2019
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Genetics
When DNA science goes down an unethical path in China, who is responsible?
New reports that China is using DNA science developed in San Diego County for widespread ethnic surveillance raise ethical questions about who is responsible for how that technology is used.
Feb 28, 2019
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Philosophy professor explores the ethics of severe brain injury
Family members of patients who have spent years in a vegetative state are often convinced that their loved ones are still aware.
Jun 27, 2018
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Genetics
First monkeys cloned by process that made Dolly the sheep
Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases.
Jan 24, 2018
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Ethics of testing for preterm birth risk weighs uncertain harms and benefits
A new blood test being developed at UC San Francisco may be able to predict a woman's risk for preterm birth with 80 percent accuracy, but knowing such information could also create stress for a woman, which is potentially ...
Nov 23, 2016
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