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AI and Healthcare Ethics: Islamic Perspectives on Medical Accountability

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Innovative Solutions for the Elimination of Tuberculosis Among Refugees and Migrants

wish admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:23:18 +0000

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Palliative Care: How Can We Respond to 10 Years of Limited Progress?

wish admin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:03:54 +0000

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Digital Addiction

wish admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 10:39:57 +0000

Only two decades ago, communications and information technology were nowhere near what we see today. We are adopting new technological innovations at an unprecedented rate. We create new accounts, subscribe to new services and download new apps almost weekly. We monitor our blood pressure using smart wearable devices and take pictures of our food to determine how many calories there are in a meal. As we become increasingly dependent on technology, it is important to understand how this dependency might negatively affect society and adolescents, in particular. The level of attachment to, and overuse of, technology among this age group is alarming.

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Islamic ethics and the healthcare of children in the genetics era

wish admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:03:56 +0000

Advancements in genetics and genomics have provided great opportu- nities for improving children’s health and the overall wellbeing of their families. These opportunities, however, are often intertwined with complex ethical questions and challenges that need to be examined in light of people’s moral and religio-ethical convictions. This report focuses on the ethical questions triggered by four main types of genetic testing, namely: premarital; preimplantation; prenatal; and newborn. From the 1990s onward, Muslim religious scholars and biomedical scientists, with the help of transnational Islamic institutions, have been engaged in intensive deliberations on the ethical aspects of genetics and genomics, including these tests. The analyses, recom- mendations and conclusions provided in this study are based on extensive and critical reading of these deliberations. To put the Islamic bioethical perspectives in their broader context, we also included a multidisciplinary review of the latest biomedical knowledge and the relevant international bioethical discourse.

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Harnessing the lessons learned from COVID-19

wish admin — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:56:34 +0000

Governments around the world have employed disparate strategies – ranging from near total lockdowns to more laissez-faire regulations – to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the benefits and drawbacks of these approaches provoke heated debate among policymakers and the general public alike, one thing is clear: widespread vaccination is the most effective weapon in the fight against COVID-19. The development and emergency-use approval of not just one, but several vaccines in a matter of months are stunning feats that have prevented millions of deaths and hospitalizations while averting hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare costs worldwide.1 Yet despite this success, the production, allocation and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines has been far from perfect, with many low- and middle-income countries still strug- gling to vaccinate even a fraction of their populations.

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The Future of Medicine: Healthcare Innovation through Precision Medicine

wish admin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:35:29 +0000

The policy briefing highlights the types of programs and initiatives that need to be implemented to engage local awareness on precision medicine.

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Policy Briefing Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Development: From Global to National

wish admin — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:29:55 +0000

This policy briefing highlights the challenges that the nursing and midwifery development workforce face and what can be done to hone this development locally and globally.

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Realizing the Promise of Immunotherapy: A Global Plan for Action

wish admin — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:39:16 +0000

This report talks immunotherapy and a framework of action as a fight against the disease.

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Stepping Up to the Plate: Planning for a Lasting Health Legacy from Major Sporting Events

wish admin — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:27:57 +0000

This report strives to create a number of feasible actions that would achieve a health legacy from worldwide sporting events such as the World Cup.

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