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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12020-021-02929-1 | DOI Listing |
J Med Ethics
September 2025
Shrewsbury Public Schools, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into pharmaceutical practices raises critical ethical concerns, including algorithmic bias, data commodification and global health inequities. While existing AI ethics frameworks emphasise transparency and fairness, they often overlook structural vulnerabilities tied to race, gender and socioeconomic status. This paper introduces relational accountability-a feminist ethics framework-to critique AI-driven pharmaceutical practices, arguing that corporate reliance on biased algorithms exacerbates inequalities by design.
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September 2025
Genentech, South San Francisco, California, USA.
Objectives: Emicizumab is the first bispecific antibody approved for prophylaxis in people with haemophilia A with or without factor VIII inhibitors. Aggregate distributional cost-effectiveness analysis assesses health equity impacts by evaluating how health effects and costs from funding an intervention are distributed among population subgroups. The objective was to evaluate how funding emicizumab for people with severe haemophilia A (PwSHA) impacts population health and health disparities in the USA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCien Saude Colet
August 2025
Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Av. Rui Barbosa 716, Flamengo. 22250-020 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women was severe. In sexual and reproductive health, it led to an increase in maternal deaths among black women. This study sought to analyze access and quality of care for pregnant and postpartum women during the pandemic.
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August 2025
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis SC Brasil.
The scope of this study was to analyze the racial inequalities present in the narratives of people whose family members died from COVID-19 in Brazil. A qualitative approach was adopted, which is inserted in the social constructionist perspective. Narratives about illness and death were produced through in-depth interviews with 35 subjects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
September 2025
Department of Neurology, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America.
Background: The potential for racial disparity using urine drug screening (UDS) in patients with seizures is sparsely reported. This study aims to determine racial and ethnic disparities when ordering UDS in patients with suspected seizures in the emergency department (ED).
Methods: In this retrospective study, we identified patients over the age of 18 with suspected seizures who presented to the ED at the University of Kansas Medical Center between October 2017 and October 2020.