Tag
ethics
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How to get quotes when scientists won’t talk on the record about climate change
Climate silence deepens among scientists affected by DOGE cuts. How do journalists get the quotes they need to inform their…
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Are older lives less worthy in a pandemic?
You may have heard the comments from Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick earlier this week, when he said that the…
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Reporter discusses search for ‘vent farm’ patient’s identity
It’s not a good idea to try to do anything else while listening to Joanne Faryon’s podcast about “Sixty-Six Garage,”…
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HIDI highlights inherent challenges when reporting on vulnerable adults
People do what they must to survive, says the subject of a story by Lisa Gillespie, health reporter at NPR…
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Beyond addiction: Medical consequences for opioid misuse
What are people leaving out in the conversation about the opioid crisis? Joshua Barocas, who teaches Boston University’s School of…
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Conflicts of interest can be harder to detect when reporting on psychosocial research
Journals require authors to disclose any possible financial conflicts of interest (COIs) because research has shown links between industry funding…
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Why we should use caution when reporting on AI in medicine
Hospitals and health systems are jumping into artificial intelligence (AI) in an effort to help physicians better analyze images and…
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In covering Ebola outbreak this time, some lessons to remember
Ebola is back in the news again with the evolving outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Could the…
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AHCJ strengthens its ethics rules on conference funding
AHCJ has strengthened its ethical standards on funding for the annual conference, enhancing the ethics code established at our inception…
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Doctors talk about ethical decisions, surgery on conjoined twins
Photo: Gideon Gil/StatDr. Oscar J. Benavidez (left), Dr. Allan M. Goldstein and other doctors at MassGeneral Hospital for Children used…
