NEW DELHI: Privatisation of healthcare was found to almost never have a positive effect on the quality of care, and was associated with higher profits, a research that reviewed previous studies of high-income countries such as the US, Germany, Canada, and South Korea has claimed. In their analysis, the researchers, led by those at the University of Oxford, UK, included …
Just over four years ago, a novel virus emerged to trigger the Covid-19 pandemic. As it rampaged across the world, spawning an unprecedented terror of death and spinning national economies into unanticipated turbulence, the pandemic demanded a coordinated global response. A rallying cry for global solidarity rang loud—“No country is safe till every country is safe!” Not only did the …
Healthy people volunteering to be infected with SARS-CoV-2, in order to help scientists better understand how to tackle the virus, should receive payment if it is determined that these studies are otherwise ethical to proceed, new research suggests. The researchers assessed the ethics of paying participants to take part in the so-called ‘Human Infection Challenge Studies’ and said that they …
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