A recent article by Kimberly Seals Allers discusses how COVID-19 safety restrictions related to giving birth and breastfeeding could potentially disproportionately harm black and Native American women. Photo courtesy of Women’s E-News Some hospitals are now classifying not only family … Continue reading
A recent report by the WHO, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the Lancet Commission, ranked the probability of children being able to “flourish” in 180 countries, examining factors such as education, nutrition and child mortality and carbon emission … Continue reading
Inside Higher Ed recently offered a quick glance at income disparities from the American Association of Medical Colleges 2019 faculty data. IMPORTANT: this graph is of medical faculty, not regular humanities/university professors, who make much much much less than this. … Continue reading
The IJFAB Blog editors have been on break to focus on family during the Northern Hemisphere’s winter holidays. We will be posting some great new content this coming week including reflections by a bioethicist obstetrician, reflections on disability and bioethics, … Continue reading
A recent study has shown that birth rates increase by 5% on days with temperatures over 90 degrees. Additionally, the World Health Organization notes that higher air temperatures have been linked to heat stroke and higher pollen levels, which can … Continue reading
In case you missed it, in June of 2019, Nature covered efforts by the multinational African Academy of Sciences (AAS), founded in 1985, to develop ethical guidelines on handling data. Their goal: to make sure that Africans benefit from research … Continue reading
A recent article has brought attention to a troubling policy in Poland surrounding the use of surplus frozen embryos left over from in-vitro fertilization treatment (IVF). IVF requires fertilization of an egg outside of the womb, and embryos not used … Continue reading
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Women. The World Health Organization has a very helpful Twitter thread on the topic. One of their tweets links to this RESPECT framework for preventing Violence Against Women. It may be valuable … Continue reading
Ongoing 21-23 November of 2019, the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law / New Zealand Bioethics Conference is spotlighting work by Māori thinkers. IJFAB Blog readers might want to look more closely at their work, which makes important contributions … Continue reading
So far in 2019, a measles outbreak in the DR of Congo has killed nearly 5,000 people. A September vaccination initiative by the Congolese government vaccinated an additional 800,000 people. In Samoa, 15 people have died and the government has … Continue reading
The Trump administration plans to limit the scientific and medical research that government agencies use when formulating public health policies, amidst protests from both scientists and physicians that this policy will undermine current scientific foundations for government legislation. A new … Continue reading
EDITOR’S NOTE: This Guest Blog comes to us from bioethicists Dr. Nathan Emmerich and Dr. Alexis Paton in response to a flurry of discussion over Sarah Franklin’s inquiry into bioethics in a recent issue of Nature. Alexis Paton is a … Continue reading