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Do-it-yourself COVID-19 vaccines fraught with public health problems


Phil Ciciora, quoting Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technology and Biomedical Innovation)
Illinois News Bureau

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Well-intentioned “citizen scientists” developing homemade COVID-19 vaccines may believe they’re inoculating themselves against the ongoing pandemic, but the practice of self-experimentation with do-it-yourself…

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Majority of Respondents Support Chimeric Animal Research: Survey


Amanda Heidt, interviewing Francis Shen (Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience)
The Scientist

Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and generate organs and tissues for human…

Vivir, enfermar y morir en el Sur de Buenos Aires


María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
FARN

En esta edición, la revista se enfoca en el bienestar humano y su íntima vinculación con un planeta sano. La conversión y fragmentaci…

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Some scientists taking ‘DIY inoculations’ instead of waiting for COVID-19 vaccine


Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, and Brooklyn Neustaeter, quoting Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow)
CTV News

TORONTO -- Nearly 200 COVID-19 vaccines are in development, and more than 60 of those are at various stages of human testing. But for some, a vaccine isn’t coming soon…

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Health officials scramble to explain details of Trump’s $200 drug discount card


Lenny Bernstein, quoting Rachel Sachs (Former Academic Fellow)
The Washington Post

Health officials scrambled Friday to explain President Trump’s plan to send $200 prescription drug discount cards to 33 million Medicare recipients as experts cast doubt on the proposal and Democrats…

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Opinion: Why the SDGs’ defining decade must focus on accountability for those left behind


Joy Phumaphi, Elizabeth Mason, and Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Devex

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world had achieved remarkable progress in improving health outcomes for women, children, and adolescents. Reducing under-5 and maternal mortality, improving sexual and reproductive health…

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Trump Promises Drug Discount Cards as an Expensive Pre-election Gift


Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Margot Sanger-Katz, quoting Rachel Sachs (Former Academic Fellow)
The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump vowed on Thursday to send $200 discount cards for prescription drugs to 33 million older Americans, a $6.6 billion election-eve promise with dubious legal authority that he announced as…

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Bioethicists condemn DIY COVID-19 vaccine efforts


Sony Salzman, quoting Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technology and Biomedical Innovation)
ABC News

Across the country, a small handful of scientists are brewing up their own homemade and unproven COVID-19 vaccines and giving them to friends, family and themselves. These scientists hail from…

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Under fire, FDA to issue stricter guidance for Covid-19 vaccine EUA this week — report


Jason Mast, quoting Rachel Sachs (Former Academic Fellow)
Endpoints News

The FDA has been insisting for months that a Covid-19 vaccine had to be at least 50% effective – a measure of transparency meant to shore public trust in the agency…

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Trump looks for ways to win over voters on health care after failing to deliver on promises


Josh Dawsey and Yasmeen Abutaleb, quoting Rachel Sachs (Former Academic Fellow)
The Washington Post

President Trump is pushing advisers to deliver health-care “wins” in the final weeks of the campaign, leading to a frenzied rollout of proposals as polls show the president…