by John McMillan | May 23, 2025 | COVID-19, Health, Policy
Libby Richards, Purdue University On May 20, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration announced a new stance on who should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The agency said it would approve new versions of the vaccine only for adults 65 years of age and older as well as for...
by John McMillan | May 23, 2025 | Health, Policy
Nicole Hassoun, Binghamton University, State University of New York On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the...
by admin | Mar 21, 2025 | COVID-19, Ethics, Policy
Dylan Thomas Doyle, University of Colorado Boulder In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, the broader...
by admin | Feb 14, 2025 | Ethics, Policy
Daniel T. Kim, Albany Medical College I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has suffered a severe brain injury...
by admin | Jan 24, 2025 | Policy
C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney Donald Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO) has been met with dismay in the public health field. Some have called one of the US president’s first executive orders “a grave error” and...
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