The research fairy 🧚‍♂️ 🌈 @bgcarlisle@scholar.social

So what if there was a law

A law requiring every single member of your extended family to consent before a for-profit company can sequence your genome, and if even a single family member refuses or can't be contacted for any reason, the process cannot continue

#Bioethics #PatientData #InformedConsent

> Cyberattack exposes information of 15 million LifeLabs customers in B.C. and Ontario

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lifelabs-cyberattack-15-million-1.5399577 #PatientData #Bioethics

> Scientists Dodge FDA to Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia

https://onezero.medium.com/scientists-dodge-fda-to-offer-a-1-million-anti-aging-treatment-in-colombia-38756dfb3ad1 #Bioethics #HumanResearch

> Do large pharma companies provide drug development innovation? Our analysis says no

https://www.statnews.com/2019/12/10/large-pharma-companies-provide-little-new-drug-development-innovation/ #DrugDevelopment #Bioethics

> Rethinking drug design in the artificial intelligence era

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-019-0050-3 #AI #DrugDevelopment #Bioethics

> Senators want answers about algorithms that provide black patients less healthcare

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/senators-want-answers-about-algorithms-that-provide-black-patients-less-healthcare/ #Bioethics #Healthcare #AI

> Amazon lets doctors record your conversations and put them in your medical files

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/02/amazon-web-services-unveils-transcribe-medical-software.html

#Bioethics #PatientConsent #BigTech

> Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions – whistleblower

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/google-medical-data-project-nightingale-secret-transfer-us-health-information #Bioethics

> “She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Chilling Final Months at Theranos

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/inside-elizabeth-holmess-final-months-at-theranos #Bioethics #Startups #Theranos

Clinical trial of Xeno-Skin (genetically engineered pig skin xenograft) for treatment of severe burns in humans

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03695939 #Bioethics #ClinicalTrials

C.f. https://onezero.medium.com/surgeons-transplanted-pig-skin-onto-humans-for-the-first-time-607fc519eb56

A re-#introductions post!

I'm the research fairy, here to make your academic problems disappear! 🧚‍♂️ 🌈

Recent experimental medicine PhD graduate from McGill in #Bioethics. Research interests include: #ResearchEthics, #MetaResearch, #HumanResearch, #Oncology, #ClinicalTrials, #Epidemiology, #MachineLearning, #ArtificialIntelligence, #MoralEfficiency, #DrugDevelopment, #ClinicalAgnosticism, #ScientificValue

Expect a lot of posts about #StarTrek if you follow me, though

> Most pediatric approval documents are filed under the wrong date in the Drugs@FDA data files

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2019/07/18/most-pediatric-approval-documents-are-filed-under-the-wrong-date-in-the-drugsfda-data-files/ #bioethics

"How much of a long-shot is too long a shot to be ethical in human research? (C.f. Theranos; Life-extension; Brain implants)"

#Bioethics

Myth: There is secret, better medical knowledge out there outside the realm of peer-reviewed medical science that other people have access to #bioethics

AI invents more effective flu vaccine in world first, Adelaide researchers say

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-02/computer-invents-flu-vaccine-in-world-first/11271170 #Bioethics #DrugDevelopment

Vaccine hesitancy: misinformation on social media

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l4457 #Bioethics

> Postmarketing commitments for novel drugs and biologics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration: a cross-sectional analysis

Turns out that most postmarketing commitments *are* followed-up with registered clinical trials (~90%), although there is a low rate of publication (~48%)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31203816?dopt=Abstract #Bioethics #ResearchEthics

One dead and one seriously ill from fecal transplants prompts a warning from the FDA

https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/important-safety-alert-regarding-use-fecal-microbiota-transplantation-and-risk-serious-adverse #bioethics

This is seriously the most superficial ethical analysis of PrEP I've ever seen

https://www.thehastingscenter.org/prevention-optimism-raise-ethical-questions-prep-hiv/

Is this just like their blog and not their actual journal? Wtf

#bioethics

Philosophical Reflections on Human Experimentation by Hans Jonas #amReading #bioethics