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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Bill of Health

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group.

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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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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

Bill of Health

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action

Bill of Health

At the global level, the health-climate nexus gained prominence with the U.N. Human Rights Council’s 2008 Resolution 7/23 , which acknowledged climate change as a threat to health, and the 2016 Analytical Study on their relationship. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D.,

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods. In my book Health Citizenship: how a virus opened up hearts and minds , I discuss how the pandemic has moved more patients as health consumers toward their health citizenship.

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