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Face-off: the ethics of compulsory mask policies
31 Jul 2020 by Ruth Campbell
The introduction of compulsory mask policies in the UK has prompted a mixture of compliance and contention.
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Heritable human genome editing: the National Academies/Royal Society report
08 Sep 2020 by Peter Mills
The Consensus Study Report of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing convened by the US National Academies of Medicine and Sciences and the UK’s Royal Society was published on 3 September.
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Recognising the human rights of people with dementia during COVID-19
24 Sep 2020 by Katharine Wright
One of the most distressing aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic for me has been the treatment of older people living in care homes – and the uncomfortable spotlight cast on the way their fundamental needs and interests are often overlooked.
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To challenge or not to challenge? That is the question!
28 Sep 2020 by Susan Tansey
Back in March discussion started as to whether it would be appropriate to consider challenge trials to speed up vaccine development during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Heritable human genome editing: making ‘societal dialogue’ meaningful
02 Oct 2020 by Jackie Leach Scully
Early September saw the publication of the latest contribution to the global discussion of heritable human genome editing.
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'Dementia: ethical issues' – over ten years on
06 Nov 2020 by Julian C. Hughes
Writing in the midst of the COVID-19 epidemic, when the world is different now to how it was just a year ago, 2009 seems like a different age.