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Injustice Anywhere: The Need to Decouple Disability and Productivity

Bill of Health

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

For COVID-19 related interventions, this could be based on the potential for harm, and/or lack of efficacy in a given clinical scenario. In the setting of COVID-19, the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. One example is the use of hemodialysis.

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has also chimed in on the flow of U.S. citizens’ data through labs that have Chinese ties , with the National Counterintelligence and Security Center issuing a warning that “[f]oreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests.”

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Re-Imagining Work in the Post-Pandemic Era: An Arendtian Lens

Bill of Health

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged this separation. For far too long, for example, maladies such as chronic fatigue, brain fog, and pain were seen with skepticism as ‘exaggerated,’ ‘made up,’ or ‘unexplained illnesses’ yet they gained legitimacy once long COVID inescapably made them a public concern.

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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

Bill of Health

These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. She has previously published research papers on transplant immunology, birth tourism in the Canadian health care system, and global COVID-19 seroprevalence.

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

Health Populi

consumers in 2021 into the positive zone of 64 points, just one point behind food and beverage (an industry which is fundamentally at the base of every human’s Maslow Hierarchy of [Basic] Needs, coming through for people during the Year of COVID). Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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