Publication integrity: what is it, why does it matter, how it is safeguarded and how could we do better? Mark J. Bolland; Alison Avenell; Andrew...
https://undark.org/2023/11/20/clinical-trial-injury/ It’s a quirk of United States law that has long bedeviled bioethicists: Unlike in many other...
Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so Sensitive health...
A major French research centre that produced one of the most widely cited and controversial research papers of the Covid-19 pandemic has been...
Documents timestamped at 14th Oct 2022 Quarantine 1&2 of 5 full, set to begin 15th March 2023 and 14th April 2023...
Abstract In 2016, we published a conceptual framework outlining the conclusions of our work in defining pilot and feasibility studies. Since...
The Scholarly Kitchen - Blog of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Who Cares About Publication Integrity? Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by...
A discussion has arisen on the use of animals in biological research into ME. I suspect there is insufficient data to create animal models of ME...
A chilling account by Robert Cockburn, an Australian journalist, of how he was harmed by unapproved experimental devices in an asthma trial at...
Desperate Patients Are Shelling Out Thousands for a Long Covid Cure. Is It for Real? Two doctors, their unusual treatment program, and the “wild...
This thread has been moved from the News subforum and renamed following a published paper based on Cheston's work. Respect and Shame in...
https://peh-med.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13010-021-00110-0 Abstract Epistemic injustice sits at the intersection of ethics,...
Physicians depend on the measurability and empirical verifiability of symptoms. Still, some symptoms defy observation and measurement, which can...
Primary and specialty care clinicians strive to base diagnoses and treatment on specific, measurable abnormalities. Yet those with invisible,...
There is some discussion of ME/CFS and medically unexplained symptoms in this including mention of papers by Keith Geraghty and Diane O'Leary....
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2021.1922731 Most public and non-profit organisations that fund health research provide the...
I am starting a thread on the 'Duties of a Doctor', which in the UK has replaced the Hippocratic Oath (as far as I am aware for graduating...
I think it is possible it happens with some people with ME/CFS, both men and women...
In Baroness Julia Cumberlege report on the pelvic mesh etc scandal, calls for doctors to have to clearly declare any funding from industry. If...
Note: There is also a members only thread discussing Reddit here Reddit thread on r/philosophy on the ethical questions involved in ME/CFS...
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