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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Bill of Health

During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months. As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. By Sharona Hoffman.

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Introducing Petrie-Flom’s POPLAR and PULSE Affiliated Researchers on Psychedelics

Bill of Health

They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Harrison M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher, and bioethicist. She currently lives in New York City.

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Q&A: George Church on Genomics of Cognitive Enhancement

Bill of Health

In 2014 CRISPR gene drives. I routinely accompany each potentially transformative paper with a paper addressing the ethics (safety, security, equity, or stigmatization). In 2004 this was chip synthesis of pathogen DNA. In 2005 the topic was consent for public release of human data.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

” In my 2014 paper for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information Is Being Tracked and Used: ” I quoted James Pyles, Esq.,

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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What You Need to Know About Marijuana Rescheduling

Bill of Health

Since 2014, Congress has passed spending amendments that limit the use of federal funds for enforcement against state-compliant medical marijuana programs. From 2009-2018, several U.S. Victoria Litman M.Div, J.D., is a nonprofit tax lawyer focused on the emerging cannabis and psychedelic tax exempt sectors and an adjunct law professor.

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