• Cannabis probably doesn't help you sleep better

    Updated: 2023-11-29 22:00:33
    Many people take cannabis to help them sleep, but there is little evidence that the drug makes a difference

  • Why some medical conditions are due to evolutionary design flaws

    Updated: 2023-11-28 16:00:24
    Rather than assuming medical conditions happen because something in the body has “gone wrong”, considering evolutionary explanations for illnesses and symptoms may help us better understand how to treat them

  • Reflections on a staff-student partnership: teachable moments in ethics

    Updated: 2023-11-27 16:25:24
    : Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Abortion Artificial intelligence clinical ethics Distributive justice Ethics education Life and Death Medical ethics Mental Health Pandemic Philosophy Research Ethics Submissions About Reflections on a staff-student partnership : teachable moments in ethics Posted on November 27, 2023 By Jennifer O†. Neill Context In early February 2022, my colleague and I embarked upon a programme of research examining our shared interest in patient healthcare involvement As lecturers at the University of Glasgow School of Medicine , we identified a unique opportunity to establish a staff-student research partnership . The underlying rationale was that our student partners may engage with our target demographic – incoming year 1 medical students – more

  • People feel more creative after using cannabis – they aren't

    Updated: 2023-11-24 09:00:32
    There is no strong evidence that taking cannabis improves our ingenuity, although it does make users feel more creative

  • Covid-19 vaccines should target only omicron for best immune response

    Updated: 2023-11-22 16:00:03
    Covid-19 vaccines may offer better protection if they just target the omicron variant, rather than both omicron and the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain

  • To care or not to care

    Updated: 2023-11-17 10:45:29
    By Victoria Min-Yi Wang and Brian Baigrie. The idea for our paper, Caring as the Unacknowledged Matrix of Evidence-Based Nursing, germinated in a philosophy of medicine graduate class that Brian was teaching and Victoria was attending. As a group, we discussed what counts as evidence in medicine, how values do and should enter into clinical [...] Read More... The post To care or not to care appeared first on Journal of Medical Ethics blog.

  • Fresh ideas about the causes of acne are bringing new treatments

    Updated: 2023-11-13 16:00:00
    We are finally working out what happens to the skin and gut microbiome when someone gets acne, giving us new targets for treatments

  • From bytes to bedside: Exploring AI in medical ethics

    Updated: 2023-11-13 14:37:24
    : Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Abortion Artificial intelligence clinical ethics Distributive justice Ethics education Life and Death Medical ethics Mental Health Pandemic Philosophy Research Ethics Submissions About From bytes to bedside : Exploring AI in medical ethics Posted on November 13, 2023 by Hazem Zohny By Michael . Balas In the swiftly advancing realm of artificial intelligence AI a tantalizing question emerges : can AI systems help us navigate the murky waters of medical ethics Our recent study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics JME tackled this very question , and our findings were . enlightening At the heart of our research was OpenAI’s GPT-4, a sophisticated language-based AI , tested for its capability in the intricate domain of medical ethics . Why

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