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The Legal and Ethical Imperative of Explicit Consent in Intimate Medical Procedures

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13] Beyond Federal law, state laws and Title IX policies that govern teaching hospitals at associated universities address consent. Medical boards, institutions, facilities, and universities must be held accountable for violations, with penalties such as fines, suspensions, or revocation of licenses. Voices in Bioethics , 9.

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A Human Rights Approach to Personal Information Technology

Bill of Health

Either way, the ability to freely choose one’s partner or licensed fiduciary is a core human right. Decentralized cooperative finance enables more diverse and resilient alternatives to corporate or government control of our essential infrastructure. This avoids vendor lock-in to corporate or government interests.

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What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos

Bill of Health

There is no specific regulation governing such research in the U.S.; it’s just that the federal government won’t fund the research. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health. To date, most, if not all, U.S. The original article can be found here.

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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. is a licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher, and bioethicist. Harrison M.A., William Leonard Pickard M.P.P.,

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What You Need to Know About Marijuana Rescheduling

Bill of Health

Notably, the recommendation was the first statement from a federal government agency that marijuana has a currently accepted medical use and a low potential for abuse. In August 2023, HHS sent an official recommendation to the DEA that it categorize marijuana under the less restrictive Schedule 3 category. Victoria Litman M.Div, J.D.,

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The Guardians of Professional Knowledge

Bill of Health

Professional Regulation The Guardians of Professional Knowledge Early in the second Trump administration, health information started to disappear from government websites including those maintained by the CDC and NIH. Both tort law and evidence have long acknowledged that knowledge communities are not monolithic.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

Bill of Health

Such a provision could prevent the public from paying twice for publicly-funded medical products—first through their taxes subsidizing government funded research and development, and second to procure the product in an inflated U.S. pharmaceutical market. Moreover, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index increased by 374% from 1995 to 2000.

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