05-01-2025

Shailja kaushik

05-01-2025

Articles

Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions

Allocation of very scarce medical interventions such as organs and vaccines is a persistent ethical challenge. We evaluate eight simple allocation principles that can be classified into four categories: treating people equally, favouring the worst-off, maximising total benefits, and promoting and rewarding social usefulness.

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Shri Thanedar's company abandoned more than 170 dogs and monkeys

A new report in the Huffington Post charges that Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar's former pharmaceutical company abandoned 173 dogs and monkeys in its facility after the company went bankrupt in 2010: Thanedar had to shutter the New Jersey testing facility.

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