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Most Bioethicists View Social Justice as an Important Part of Ethics Role
Most bioethicists see social justice as central to their work. They address inequities by amplifying vulnerable patients’ voices, examining institutional policies, and advising leadership, ensuring healthcare decisions respect dignity, fairness, and broader social responsibilities.
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Studies Reveal Financial Conflicts Often Are Undisclosed, Raising Ethical Concerns
Physicians frequently fail to disclose financial conflicts of interest, undermining trust and objectivity. Discrepancies in reporting highlight the need for standardized disclosure policies, ethicist guidance, and stronger interventions to mitigate industry influence on medicine.
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Fraud Is Persistent, Pervasive Ethics Concern with Social Media Recruitment
Fraudulent participants increasingly compromise research recruitment via social media, threatening data integrity. Although verification methods can deter scams, they often create accessibility barriers, especially in disability research. Ethicists and institutional review boards must balance inclusivity with fraud prevention strategies.
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Some IRB Policies Unfairly Exclude People with Uncertain Decision-Making Capacity
Many IRB policies exclude individuals with impaired decision-making capacity, raising ethical and civil rights concerns. Researchers and ethicists advocate for inclusion, reassessment of capacity, and accommodations to ensure fair participation while balancing risk, consent, and autonomy.
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New Ethics Training Approaches Better Prepare Medical Students for Reality
Medical schools are adopting innovative ethics training methods, such as resident-led case conferences and humanities-based end-of-life education. These programs connect ethical principles to real clinical practice, helping trainees handle complex issues such as futility, patient autonomy, and dying patients.
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Growing Demand for Ethics Expertise to Evaluate AI Tools Before Use in Healthcare
Ethicists increasingly are needed to guide the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Their expertise ensures fairness, privacy protection, bias reduction, and patient-centered care, bridging gaps often overlooked in technical and business evaluations.
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Infectious Disease Updates
Eradication of Polio Around the World; Candida auris in Dialysis Facilities: How Great Is the Risk?
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines: Updates and Disputes
An update of elements of community-acquired pneumonia guidelines have been published. Of note is that these were not endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America because of disagreement over recommendations for empiric antibiotic administration to some patient subsets with positive tests for respiratory viral infection.
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Aluminum-Adsorbed Vaccines and Chronic Diseases in Children
A large Danish cohort study of 1.2 million children found no association between cumulative aluminum exposure from childhood vaccines and increased risk for autoimmune, atopic/allergic, or neurodevelopmental disorders, adding to nearly a century of safety data for aluminum adjuvants, although the study’s findings have been the subject of public debate about interpretation of secondary analyses.
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Routine Boosting Against Tetanus and Diphtheria in Adults: A Time to Reconsider
Slifka and colleagues make a strong argument against the routine booster vaccination of adults against tetanus and diphtheria as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.