Top The 10 most-read medical ethics articles in 2022

Training, service delivery, and financing are done separately in dentistry and general health care, which has influenced reimbursement structures, access to services, and outcomes. Hurricane María, earthquakes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and relentless privatization and fragmentation of the healthcare system have led to very poor health outcomes. Read more

1. Despite the availability of good national oral health curricula for medical trainees, most physicians are ill-equipped to identify oral cancers or avoid unnecessary referrals. Medical education that omits critical discourse about racism perpetuates racism. Read more in the March 2022 issue 

1. Until the mid-20th century, birth in the United States for Latinx Indigenous peoples was an ancestral ceremony guided by midwives and traditional healers.
2. Continued separation of dental and oral health from general medical care generates unnecessary prescriptions and pain management that are neither restorative nor responsive to patients’ primary complaints. Tactical emergency medical personnel direct triage and resource allocation and administer immediate interventions. Read more about
3. This brief visual and narrative history explains why dentistry exists outside medicine, rather than as a specialty within it. All harm resulting from negligence is iatrogenic, but not all iatrogenic injury is negligent. Read more about
4. Physicians must respond with care to all patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions. an online learning platform that brings together high-quality CME, maintenance of certification, and educational content from trusted sources, all in one place—with activities relevant to you, automated credit tracking, and reporting for some states and specialty boards. Journal of Ethics podcast explores the ethical and professional challenges that medical students and physicians regularly confront during their education and practice careers.

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   Subscribe to the journal’s monthly newsletter for the latest issue, ethics cases, podcast, and CME exploring timely ethical questions in health and health care. Mycotoxins harm human and livestock health while damaging economies. Here we reveal the changing threat of Fusarium head blight (FHB) mycotoxins in European wheat, using data from the European Food Safety Agency and agribusiness (BIOMIN, World Mycotoxin Survey) for ten years (2010–2019). We show persistent, high, single- and multi-mycotoxin contamination alongside changing temporal-geographical distributions, indicative of altering FHB disease pressure and pathogen populations, highlighting the potential synergistic negative health consequences and economic cost. Mycotoxins are fungal secondary metabolites that are toxic to humans and livestock. They occur when fungal pathogens infect crops and contaminate their products. Mycotoxins contaminate 60–80% of crops, with 20% of global crops exceeding European Union (EU) legal food safety limits1.

   Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a mycotoxigenic preharvest fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, which is a pivotal crop for human nutritional security2, livestock fee, d, and international trade. Different Fusarium species within the FHB complex produce various mycotoxins that threaten human and livestock health, causing a wide range of toxic effects3. Therefore, the EU commission sets legal limits on FHB mycotoxin levels in food, but only guidelines for feed4. Grain exceeding the legal mycotoxin limit is downgraded from food to animal feed at an economic cost. Multi-mycotoxin synergisms are also an emerging concern for human and animal health5. The