rimum non nocere.
First, do no harm.
Are we applying this principle to TB preventive therapy in the era of primary drug resistance? A question the global TB community can no longer defer. #TB #GlobalHealth #MedEthics @organicbotanic.bsky.social @microlabdoc.bsky.social

Looks a good resource #medethics

Norway: Researchers Slammed for Secretive Study on Transgender Patients - MySoCalledGayLife.eu Norwegian gender clinic accused of secretly using trans patients’ records for research without consent — ethics committee rules the studies unlawful.

Norwegian clinic under fire after ethics ruling finds researchers used transgender patients' records without consent. Accountability demanded. Read more: mysocalledgaylife.eu/2025/12/norw... #Trans #Ethics #Privacy #Norway #MedEthics

Assistant Professor, The University of Mississippi - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, The University of Mississippi An international database of jobs for philosophers

My department is hiring!

Assistant Profesor
AOS: bioethics/biomedical ethics
AOC: open

Applications due one week from today.

#PhilSky #PhilJobs #MedEthics

#AcademicJob Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine joint between Departments of Sociology and History & Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Apply by 17 November
#HPS #STS #Sociology #SocMed #HistMed #MedHum #MedAnth #MedEthics #PhilJobs

Law enforcement at the bedside—what are your rights and responsibilities?

Join defense attorney Saulius Polteraitis & physician ethicist Dr. Samantha Chao for a free #webinar in honor of #HealthcareRiskManagementWeek.

Register: med-iq.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#medethics #healthlaw

Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong is ready to invest in CRISPR baby tech The stigmatized idea could get a massive boost from “tech bros”—and some scientists are cheering them on.

Crypto billionaire Brian Armstrong plans to fund a US startup for gene-editing human embryos, leveraging advancements in safer base-editing. This controversial move, due to significant legal and ethical concerns, aims to accelerate research into preventing genetic diseases. 🧬💻 #MedSky #MedEthics

On May 21, Dr. @lizdzeng.bsky.social‬ presented her research at King’s College London on how hospital culture shapes end-of-life care and contributes to moral distress among U.S. physicians. Hosted by the Cicely Saunders Institute. #EOLcare #MedEthics #UCSF

Calling the Ethics Consult What To Do With Ethical Quandaries and Conflicts in Medicine

open.substack.com/pub/familyme... #medsky #medethics

Opinion | A Good Doctor Knows When to Bend the Rules Some physicians agree to patients’ requests for unproven treatment or altered vaccine schedules.

"Perhaps the best way [for doctors] to gain #trust is to bring our patients into our thought processes and to collaborate on our imperfect decisions." - Dr. Daniela J. Lamas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/o... #MedEthics

Revisiting the need for virtue in medical practice: a reflection upon the teaching of Edmund Pellegrino - Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Edmund Pellegrino considered medicine as a skill, art, and perhaps most importantly, a moral enterprise. In this essay, I attempt to exemplify how the legacy and contributions of Edmund Pellegrino,…

What happens when we lose sight of the moral foundations of medicine? Luchuo Engelbert Bain urges a return to virtue in healthcare, emphasizing empathy, trust, and the patient-physician bond. #MedEthics

Really excited to share that I’ve signed the paperwork and I’ll be a Fellow in Pediatric Clinical Ethics come July. #MedEthics #MedSky #ClinicalEthics

Deciding Whether to Accept an Unvaccinated Child into a Pediatric Practice | NEJM This feature about a child unvaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting accepting the child as a patient without mandating the M...

Should pediatric practices dismiss families who refuse vaccines? 🤔

It’s a common yet controversial practice. I’ve worked in clinics that dismiss and those that don’t, each with its own ethical, legal, and moral challenges.

#Vaccines #MedEthics #Pediatrics @nejm.org

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‘LIfe-Changing’ Psychedelic, for When Life Is Ending People are turning to psilocybin, ketamine and other treatments for palliative care.

This appeals, more for the end-of-life "adventure" than by the evidence or reason, www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/h... #PalliativeCare #MedEthics

I keep thinking about how many institutional failures symptomatic of our society led to this doctor being able to cause such harm. This @propublica.org piece is long, wild, sad, terrifying, and definitely worth reading!

#MedicalEthics #MedEthics

Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.

Concerning! As more people undergo DNA testing, more will find they can't get long-term-care, disability, or life insurance, @kristenvbrown.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... #genetics #MedEthics

Jobs | University of Utah Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. Uni...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities Depart of Philosophy, University of Utah
AOS: Medical Humanities, broadly #bioethics, #medethics, #philmed, #philpsych, #philrace #MedHum #philsci #philsky PhD in philosophy or related field
Deadline Nov 1, 2024

#philsci #histmed #medethics

Removing Race from Lung Function Tests Could Benefit Millions of Black Americans A new study shows that hundreds of thousands more Black people in the U.S. would qualify for a lung disease diagnosis and disability payments if lung-function measurements weren’t adjusted for race

Great article feat. #histsci #histmed #STS Lundy Braun. Slaveowner "Thomas Jefferson once speculated that Black people had diff lung function than White...idea persisted to present day" leading "to diagnoses being entirely missed or undertreated in certain racial groups" #ScientificRacism #MedEthics

We are hiring! Join our team in the ethics subproject of our interdisciplinary research project “NEW_LIVES: Genomic NEWborn Screening Programs – Legal Implications, Value, Ethics and Society” 👶🧬
Deadline Jan 3
#bioethics #ethics #medethics
karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac...

Workshop report: The uses of historical medical photograp...

Also thinking again abt #medethics & images - @harbottlestores's working on this, incl at our @HistoryatHud event http://bit.ly/2ulryHG

Fascinating & rptd point by @LoisSBibbings, linking today's medical whistleblowers & #medethics w/ decisions & conscience in #ww1 #QSRA2015