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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. John Rapp , J.D.,

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

I had the opportunity to develop that vision of an expanded field of “Psychedelic Studies” in 2015, when I was commissioned by the feminist philosopher Iris van der Tuin to write the first textbook chapter on critical psychedelic studies. Neşe Devenot, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the University Writing Program at the Johns Hopkins University.

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Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

In 2020, the UK experienced a net loss of 1,300 scientists abroad, having been a net importer as recently as 2015, according to OECD data. The migration of scientists from the UK to other countries might partly explain the shortage.

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Q&A: Alex Zhavoronkov on Cognitive Enhancement, Anti-Aging, and AI Drug Development

Bill of Health

In 2015, we realized that age is a universal feature that every organism has, and started building deep learning models trained to predict age and other features. Even if we do not get specific diseases, all humans will gradually lose function and die.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

now, looking at health citizens’ trust in five segments of the health care industry between 2015 and 2021. The largest trust-drops were found in Mexico (falling 20 points), China (down 17 points), Canada (declining 15 points), South Korea (a drop of 11 points), and the UK and US, both with reductions in trust of 10 points.

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Building Health Equity Through Faith and Food – the Black Church Food Security Network

Health Populi

Gray died while in police custody in April 2015, suffering a neck injury and dying in a hospital a week later. It’s important to place this story in the context of what was happening in Baltimore at the time: the Network evolved in the middle of the Baltimore uprising which followed the death of Freddie Gray.

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Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation

Bill of Health

In 2015, Congress included a now-recurring budget rider in appropriations legislation that prevents the FDA from using its funding to consider IND applications involving “heritable genetic modification.” using administrative law: (1) adapting the U.K.’s

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