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By Donrich Thaldar On the issue of human genome editing (HGE), attitudes between bioethics scholars and the general public diverge, as highlighted by my team’s findings from a recent deliberative public engagement study. ” (Not one study participant relied on this objection during the more than 20 hours of deliberations.)
The phenomenon of citing anecdotal evidence as if it is scientific evidence appears across training materials, research articles, and general discussions by stakeholders (e.g., This is not an acceptable level of evidence given the degree of patient vulnerability and the need to address serious and widespread records of harms.
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. In this article, I discuss the legal documents that every American adult should have.
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. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters on mental health and the training of clinicians.
Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. By Minsoo Kwon The legalization of cannabis has raised ethical, regulatory, and scientific questions.
Dmitry’s talk, “Evergreening: The FDA’s Role in the Creation of Balanced Rights for Pharmaceutical Improvements,” was developed into an article and published in the Iowa Law Review in 2019 titled “The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA.”
This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. An active bioethics and medical law community is needed to influence the interpretation of the law in Courts to set standards that complement the right to health.
If selected, draft articles will be due on or before February 1, 2023. Disability-inclusive climate decision-making and solutions are not only essential for safeguarding the lives and dignity of persons with disabilities, but may also enhance the equity and effectiveness of the global transition to climate-resilient and low-carbon societies.
This article explores the legal framework surrounding these practices, emphasizing case law, Federal law, and institutional policies while calling for systemic reform to secure equal protection for all patients from all unwanted and non-consensual intimate encounters before, during, and after elective medical procedures.
These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. Sarah Gabriele is a second year Master of Bioethics candidate at Harvard Medical School. We are excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family. Louis (USA).
8] All forms of child abuse determinations are subject to misuse of the power of the examining physician, and it is suggested that similar to bioethical determinations, child abuse considerations should be evaluated by committee and not vested in the hands of a single physician. [9] That article can be found here. City of Chicago. [4]
Upon investigation, I found little to no analysis of PROMs in the legal literature, so Andy and I recently published a law review article about them. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Chief among them is filling data gaps.
Panelists discussed these topics during a recent webinar hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. This article highlights key points made during the conversation. First, BJ Casey , Christina L.
This article is adapted slightly from remarks the author delivered at the 2022 International Neuroethics Society annual meeting on a panel about neurorehabilitation moderated by Dr. Joseph Fins. This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. I then taught my classes and published articles, textbooks, and briefs.
This article explains the history of affirmative action in the U.S., is a visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Diversity among physicians is a compelling interest in our increasingly diverse society. Gregory Curfman , M.D.
It is essential reading; the article points to the cruelty in how we situate advice and research around screen time for autistic people — and speaks to a much broader field of research that serves to always compare and situate autistic kids against typical peers, and never letting autistic kids be autistic and respected on their own terms.
As I argue in my article “ Cognitive Decline and the Workplace ” (forthcoming in the Wake Forest Law Review ), there are several options, but many are legally and ethically problematic. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
We analyze this question from a legal perspective in this article.) Should the intended parents’ reproductive autonomy to use HHGE win over the prospective children’s eventual autonomy to decide certain things for themselves? (We
Working with an interdisciplinary expert Working Group supported by the NIH BRAIN Initiative Neuroethics program, our newly published article in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) provides the first consensus guidance for addressing ethical, legal, and policy challenges in field-based neuroimaging research with highly portable MRI.
When TDI is hijacked by advertisers for commercial purposes, however, serious bioethical issues emerge. I will discuss these harms in a forthcoming law review article titled The Nightmare of Dream Advertising.
And in 2019, the Justice Department asserted that the FDA does not even have the authority to regulate such drugs since “ the FDCA’s regulatory framework for ‘drugs’ and ‘devices’ cannot sensibly be applied ” to articles having an intended use not traditionally regulated by FDA (i.e.,
For example, Article 53 of Geneva Convention IV prohibits the destruction by the occupying power of private and public properties, except in cases of absolute military necessity. This provision could provide minimum protection to certain animals, but only when considered to be items of private or public (or living ) property.
As an article in The Atlantic points out, the risks of the experiment did not outweigh the potential benefits, the gene editing was poorly executed, the participants’ consent was questionable, and the experiment was kept hidden from Dr.
The laws put vulnerable persons at risk and may contravene Article 10 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Canada has ratified.
” Next, let’s visit the article looking at Trends in Differences in Health Status and Health Care Access and Affordability by Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.
This article is lightly edited and reprinted, with permission, from the American Council on Science and Health. The original article can be found here. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health.
” Frans pointed us to a just-published article in Nature Medicine on using AI for more effectively diagnosing childhood diseases. The study mashed up 101.6 million data points from 1,362,559 pediatric patient visits to a health system.
” In this compelling publication, you will find articles covering systemic and structural racism, the factor of geography and “place” (THINK: ZIP code more impactful on health than genetic code), and public policy. “That name captures the aspirational view that we are connected.”.
. “Shallow Medicine” is the theme of this discussion, which includes the word cloud shown here describing Americans’ views on doctors in 2017, published in a JAMA Surgery article called, “Patient Perceptions About Their Physician in 2 Words: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” ” The U.S.
This graphic was part of a Wall Street Journal article published February 22, 2019, revealing that mobile apps share data well beyond the user’s intentions — in this case, a woman’s ovulation data eventually shared on Facebook. This law shares many elements with the GDPR.
The article in Nature was “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor,” demonstrating that instead of 10,000 years to analyze data, the new analytics capability enables a calculation in a matter of seconds.
You can read more details about this evolving situation in the WSJ article linked above, and other takes in tech, business, and social media that have begun to populate the interwebs.
As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. By Chloe Reichel. Browse the list below. Microdosing at Work: Business and Legal Implications.
This post is an adaptation of an article published in the Harvard Social Impact Review. There are important nuances and details to this proposal, which are addressed more fully in a forthcoming article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. By Allison M. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v.
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In a recent article, Normalizing Reproductive Genetic Innovation , I offer four potential avenues for structuring a societal discourse in the U.S. on the topic.
In closing the loop on racial/ethnic disparities as a patient safety issue and health equity by design, I’ll point you to a recent article in Nature Digital Medicine titled “Predictably unequal.” He pointed to the potential for algorithmic bias, of which we should all be mindful to avoid and identify.
Research articles in mass media like New York Times and Wired have begun to point out that our digital dust (culminating in digital phenotyping) can enable police to track us from our phones — and get it very wrong. New companies are forming to enable people to monetize their data, so we enter another new bioethical space in this scenario.
Experts contacted in the article, including a former head of HIPAA enforcement for the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights expressed concern about the legality of the data transfer without patient authorization. Sign up for their health tech newsletter, delivered Tuesday and Thursday mornings, here: [link].
I leave you with a classic JAMA viewpoint article asserting that Value-based payments require valuing what matters to patients. That’s the user-centered design requirement now embracing both value and values for women and health care, accounting for mind, body, spirit… and wallet.
Disclosures: All three of the authors provide strategic advice to health care companies and organizations (including payers, providers, retailers, tech companies, emerging companies and others), including some of the companies and organizations mentioned in this article. Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Bio and her Blog, Health Populi.
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this Article offers an evidence-based assessment of each of these assumptions. This article concludes by considering why the consequences and limitations of abortion bans should matter to supporters and opponents, alike. Second, they hope bans will send a message about abortion—specifically, that abortion is immoral.
This article explains how these injustices are likely to be exacerbated by the Dobbs ruling. Immigrant reproduction has long been vilified and opposed, with immigrant parents facing accusations of being hyper-fertile and giving birth to “anchor babies.”
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