The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission. | Watch Pilger's 2010 film The War You Don't See…
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Exome Sequencing as Part of a Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis
Doreille A, Raymond L, Mesnard L. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
To the Editor The Viewpoint by Dr Friedman and colleagues on whole-exome sequencing claimed that the diagnosis of many genetic diseases cannot be based solely on molecular results but requires a multidisciplinary approach for a final diagnosis. The authors stated "Genomic variants classified as pathogenic or likely pathogenic may be seen in healthy people." This phenomenon has been described for genetically related kidney diseases in particular. We agree with the authors about using a multidisciplinary approach in the field of adult genetically related kidney diseases, in which the pretest probability of a geneti…
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Global Regulators Set Standards for Safe Vaccines
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
The International Coalition of Medicines Regulatory Authorities (ICMRA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are collaborating to create standards that ensure safe and equitable access to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) medicines and vaccines.
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-12-15
Health care workers in Ontario, Alberta and other provinces have protested inadequate COVID-19 safety measures while the disease is once again infecting hundreds at meatpacking plants.
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Conversational Agents in Health Care–Reply
McGreevey JD, III, Hanson C, III, Koppel R. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
In Reply Dr Darcy and colleagues from Woebot Health cite 2 references when suggesting that the CA field is more developed than our Viewpoint suggested. However, we find the use of these references as being off target for 2 reasons. First, both articles address symptom checkers. Symptom checkers typically ask patients preset questions and permit structured or limited free-text replies. Thus, we would not consider symptom checkers to be CAs. Our Viewpoint focused on technologies that accept and interpret a broad range of typed or spoken words, phrases, and sentences and that offer natural-sounding language response…
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Human-Centered Design and Trust in Medicine
Wheelock A, Bechtel C, Leff B. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
This Viewpoint discusses how human-centered design (HCD) that involves all stakeholders can improve patient trust in physicians and health care systems, describes its methods, and provides examples of its successful application.
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The Enduring Importance of Trust in Leadership of Health Care Organizations
Jain SH, Lucey C, Crosson FJ. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
This Viewpoint discusses the declining trust in the US health care system, especially in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the importance that maintaining public trust should hold in the culture of health care organizations.
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Addressing Medical Misinformation in the Patient-Clinician Relationship
Arora VM, Madison S, Simpson L. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
This Viewpoint describes why health misinformation spreads, characterizes a broader set of misinformation types, and discusses solutions to this problem.
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Patient Consumerism, Healing Relationships, and Rebuilding Trust in Health Care
Khullar D, Darien G, Ness DL. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
This Viewpoint discusses barriers to building trust between physicians and patients and offers recommendations to increase that trust, including minimizing emphasis on patient consumerism, promoting authentic partnerships, and accelerating select payment and delivery system reforms.
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COVID's Covert Reengineering of Humanity. "Genetically Modified" Vaccines?
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
The first Covid vaccines now being rushed onto the market are genetically modified products. However, they are not publicly referred to as such, because that would likely scare off a high percentage of would be recipients. | Nevertheless, the public …
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Russia Begins COVID-19 Vaccination Throughout Its Territory
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-15
Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Tuesday announced the start of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country, adding that his institution has settled a national network for the transportation of the Sputnik V vaccine. | RELATED: | Russian Vaccine Sputnik V Has Over 90 Percent Effectiveness | Besides announcing that President Vladimir Putin's administration will seek to attract new companies for the production of the vaccine, he explained that the conservation of Sputnik V will b…
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Conversational Agents in Health Care
Darcy A, Robinson A, Wicks P. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
To the Editor The Viewpoint by Dr McGreevey and colleagues drew attention to the increasing use of conversational agents (CAs) in health care. However, they suggested a less mature field than we find in practice, and their call for CA-specific regulations risks creating confusion.
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Warning! Seniors and Healthcare Workers First in Line to Get the Experimental COVID Vaccine!
Brian Shilhavy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15