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When Crafting Public Health Policy, the Perfect Shouldn’t Be the Enemy of the Good

Bill of Health

For example, public health officials at virtually every level have resisted implementation or reinstatement of mask mandates in part by arguing that either some percentage of the population will not mask or that mask mandates alone will be ineffective. Sound familiar? It’s one justification for pandemic policy inaction in a nutshell.

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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., Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe , Ph.D.,

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Restricting Reproductive Rights During the War on Drugs: Intersectional Regimes of Surveillance and Criminalization That Harm Us All

Bill of Health

Receiving methadone treatment typically requires daily observed dosing at the federally-licensed Opioid Treatment Program where one is registered as a patient. Carroll , PhD, MPH, is a medical anthropologist, research scientist, and subject matter expert on substance use and public health. . Jennifer J.

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Consumers Embrace Tech But Privacy Remains a Concern – The Morning Consult Poll of Consumers and Tech

Jane Sarashon

And less than 1 in 4 consumers were comfortable sharing information such as driver’s license numbers, biometrics like DNA or fingerprints, banking information, passport numbers, or Social Security numbers which would be the least likely piece of personal data folks were comfortable sharing.

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An Ob/Gyn Reflects on Dobbs: ‘The Time Has Passed for Neutrality’

Bill of Health

If this case had come up on my licensing exam, the correct answer for how to manage this patient would be to surgically remove the pregnancy, or medically terminate it as soon as possible. Ectopic pregnancies will never result in viable pregnancies.

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Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions

Bill of Health

Immigration Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions The Hastings Centers Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Covid-19 (March 2020) established foundational duties for responding to a public health emergency.

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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

Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) incorporated a fair pricing condition as part of cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) between federal laboratories and private manufacturers. In 1989, the U.S.

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