Steve Joffe
Research ethics, pediatric ethics, cancer ethics, genomethics, science policy @ UPenn. Proud, grateful immigrant. Speak only for myself. R/Ts≠likes. He/him/his.
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Dr. Judy Shea Wins Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching - Center for Health Initiatives and Behavioral Economics
Congratulations to Judy Shea, PhD, who has been awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching from Penn.
Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science
To know virologist Akiko Iwasaki is to know that she is passionate about combatting sexism, power imbalance, and toxic behavior in academia.
No news on Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine is good news — and bad news
Pfizer and BioNTech are under a white-hot spotlight because their vaccine, by design, is likely to be the first to have any efficacy data.
GOP Senators: We're Coming For Your Seats
Don't let McConnell & the GOP get away with it! This ActBlue fund supports the Senate Democratic candidates most in need of funds as we pursue a blue majority for 2021 (& beyond). If the GOP holds the Senate, all is lost. WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!...
Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic
There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city.
Steve Joffe
1/ Reading this story by @peterhessler story, and was floored by the low # of COVID19 deaths in mainland China.
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Women on Qatar Airways Flight Strip Searched, Sparking Outrage in Australia
Female passengers said they were pulled from a Sydney-bound flight in Doha and given a medically invasive exam to see if they had recently given birth after an abandoned newborn was found in an airport bathroom.
WSJ News Exclusive | Health Agency Scraps Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold
A federal health agency halted a public-service coronavirus advertising campaign funded by $250 million in taxpayer money after it offered a special vaccine deal to an unusual set of essential workers: Santa Claus performers.
Global clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine resume | University of Oxford
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has today authorised a restart of clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 Oxford coronavirus vaccine in the USA following the trials restarting in the UK, Brazil, South Africa and Japan.
WSJ News Exclusive | Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project Into Political Ad Targeting
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad targeting practices, setting up a fight with academics seeking to study the platform without the company’s permission.
Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Nears Record, With More Than 75,000 Virus Cases
The tally is the second-highest daily total since the pandemic began, as eight states set single-day case records.
Drug used in organ transplants can reduce deaths from severe COVID-19, research suggests
In the worldwide race to find effective treatments for COVID-19, cyclosporine has been largely overlooked. Clinical trials are underway at Penn.
Steve Joffe
If this year has taught us anything it has taught us that we need randomized controlled trials (also, the causal claim in this headline is misleading).
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Science journal editors shouldn't contribute to politicizing science - STAT
By advocating against or endorsing presidential candidates, science journal editors make themselves vulnerable to charges of bias.
Steve Joffe
An argument from @ProfGenKanter that, even in the current extremis, scientific and medical journal editors should not endorse candidates in political races.
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management and Black Studies
The Department of Health Policy and Management and the Black Studies Program at Providence College invites applications for a full-time joint tenure-track assistant professor position beginning August 2021.
The successful candidate must show...
Albert R. Jonsen, PhD | UW Department of Bioethics & Humanities
Steve Joffe
2020 has been a catastrophic year in so many ways.
Among them, the passing of so many founding mothers and fathers of bioethics.
Chuck Bosk
Renee Fox
David Rothman
Dan Brock
And now, Al Jonsen.
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The duty to mentor, be visible and represent
Kizzmekia ‘Kizzy’ Corbett, a viral immunologist and research fellow, is the team lead for coronavirus research within the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part...
The FDA's Role In A COVID-19 Vaccine : 1A
"There's a distinction between the public perception that politicians are trying to influence the agency and what's actually going on in the FDA's day-to-day regulatory work," says former FDA commissioner Dr. Mark McClellan.Want to support 1A? Give...
As COVID-19 cases rise, now is not the time for City Council to drop the ball on eviction protections | Editorial
How did an eviction moratorium that got unanimous support when case numbers were lower fail to get out of committee now that coronavirus cases have tripled?
EMA endorses use of dexamethasone in COVID-19 patients on oxygen or mechanical ventilation - European Medicines Agency
EMA endorses use of dexamethasone in COVID-19 patients on oxygen or mechanical ventilation