In post-Roe US, clinical trials may be too risky for people who can get pregnant

The bans and restrictions complicate clinical trials and leave risky paper trails.

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A year after the fall of Roe v. Wade, clinical researchers are still grappling with how to ethically adjust to the new reality—which at this point involves abortion bans and restrictions in roughly half of US states.

In a policy forum piece published Thursday in Science, a group of health experts and bioethicists led by Jeremy Sugarman at Johns Hopkins University lays out the ethical, legal, and practical challenges researchers face in the new era.

Bans and restrictions lead to "increased maternal morbidity and mortality and deepening socioeconomic and racial inequities," they wrote, but also "pose risks to clinical research participants and potentially compromise the scientific and social value of some research."

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Meta won’t negotiate with publishers, will end Facebook news in Canada

A small percentage of Canadian Facebook users is already losing access to news.

Meta won’t negotiate with publishers, will end Facebook news in Canada

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Yesterday, Canada passed its Online News Act, which requires tech companies to negotiate content deals with news publishers and pay news outlets for links shared on their platforms. As Meta threatened back in March, it promptly announced yesterday that it will be quickly ending news access on Facebook and Instagram in response to the law, Reuters reported.

"Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada prior to the Online News Act taking effect," Meta's statement said.

According to The New York Times, it's still unclear when Canada's law will take effect, but Meta's statement makes it sound like Meta plans to cut off news as quickly as it can. Meta claims that news has no value to either the tech giant or to users who do not go to Facebook and Instagram to consume news.

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Kultspielzeug: Hasbro bringt den Furby zurück

Furbys durften nicht in Gebäude der NSA und wurden zu einer Orgel umgebaut – jetzt bringt Hasbro das Kultspielzeug wieder in die Läden. (Furby, Spielzeug)

Furbys durften nicht in Gebäude der NSA und wurden zu einer Orgel umgebaut - jetzt bringt Hasbro das Kultspielzeug wieder in die Läden. (Furby, Spielzeug)

High Risk Vendor: 5G-Risikoanalysen der EU-Kommission zu Huawei sind geheim

Warum Technologie von Huawei und ZTE riskant sein soll, beantwortet die EU-Kommission nicht mit technischen Fakten. EU-Mitgliedsstaaten beginnen zu widersprechen. (Huawei, Mobilfunk)

Warum Technologie von Huawei und ZTE riskant sein soll, beantwortet die EU-Kommission nicht mit technischen Fakten. EU-Mitgliedsstaaten beginnen zu widersprechen. (Huawei, Mobilfunk)