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Clinic Pushes Inhaled Stem Cell Tx, Delivered to Your Door
"In the age of social distancing, one stem cell clinic has decided to make its products -- which it strongly suggests can prevent COVID-19 -- available for home delivery. This procedure was invented during the coronavirus outbreak so…
Shady Stem Cell Clinics Are Peddling 'Immune-Boosting' Covid-19 Treatments
Clinics both in and out off the U.S. are making stem cells as a preventative, 'immune-boosting' treatment against the coronavirus, with little to no evidence to back up their claims." Leigh Turner, PhD is quoted.
Access the Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics for Free: Includes chapter from Director Debra DeBruin, PhD
Learning about Public Health Ethics just got easier: In light of the current pandemic, the Oxford University Press has made all 73 chapters of
Ethics around businesses marketing unproven and unlicensed COVID-19 stem-cell-based “therapies”
"As the public looks for treatments for SARS-CoV-2, some businesses in the United States are marketing unlicensed and unproven stem-cell-based “therapies” and exosome products that claim to prevent or treat the disease. In a recent journal…
Online Panel Discussion on Ethics of Social Distancing, Rationing, & Crisis Standards
On Monday, May 4 from 3:00 - 4:00 pm, you can listen in on a panel discussion hosted by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
"Frightening and discouraging" - no guarantees of COVID-19 immunity
"Last week's announcement by the World Health Organization that "there's no evidence shows that having coronavirus prevents a second infection" is a big deal, because almost all of our ideas of how "moving forward" looks are predicated on…
It's Called "Novel" Coronavirus for a Reason
"Epidemiologist Catherine McCarty, PhD, MPH... [discusses] the two kinds of testing much of the world is anxiously waiting for: the test to see of someone has COVID-19 and the test to see if they have the antibodies. But it's still an…
Learning Opportunity: Climate and Health Study Group
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Don't be surprised if you're working from the kitchen table a while longer...
"Stay home. Stay home, stay home, stay home. Catherine McCarty, PhD, MPH, says she can't say it often enough... The University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus epidemiologist talked about what we've learned about the coronavirus…
New Book from Steve Miles, MD on Medical Torture
Professor emeritus of medicine and bioethics, Steve Miles, MD, has published a new book reviewing physician complicity with torture internationally: The Torture Doctors: Human Rights Crimes and the Road to Justice.
It begins with the Nazi…