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Note that some links may require registration or subscription. U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year in the first half of 2020, due to COVID-19 and overdose deaths, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Pfizer plans to test a booster shot to address the South African coronavirus variant. ( Reuters) The Hill) Washington Post) Rich countries may end up with a billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses than they need, according to anti-poverty advocacy group ONE Campaign. ( Reuters) As of 8:00 a.m. ET on Friday, the unofficial COVID-19 count in the U.S. stood at 27,896,700 case...

email article Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true patient care case. You vote on your decision in the case and, next week, we'll reveal how you all made the call. Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD, will also weigh in with an ethical framework to help you learn and prepare. The following case is adapted from Riley and Norma are two elderly residents of the dementia unit at the Shady Acres Nursing Home. Both suffer from Alzheimer's disease and are profoundly impaired -- generally ...

email article HCA Healthcare completed its $1.5-billion acquisition of western North Carolina's Mission Health in 2019, but the nonprofit sale to a for-profit entity hasn't been without scrutiny. Following reports from the local community of charity care that's difficult for patients to understand and declines in service, a slew of physician departures is now turning heads. Dogwood Health Trust -- a foundation formed with proceeds from the sale to monitor HCA's compliance with obligations of the deal and to invest in the health and well-being of North Carolinians -- hasn't notified ...

Do violent movies like Research linking violent entertainment to aggression retracted after scrutiny Feb. 16, 2021 , 1:00 PM As Samuel West combed through a paper that found a link between watching cartoon violence and aggression in children, he noticed something odd about the study participants. There were more than 3000—an unusually large number—and they were all 10 years old. “It was just too perfect,” says West, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Aggressive Behavior and led by psychologist Qian Zhang of Southwest University of Chongqing, to ...

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