Bill of Health

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In SBS, the examining physician is presented with a baby with horrific injuries and can find no other possible cause — reminiscent of the res ipsa case. [7] 7] Rejecting a diagnosis because a causal mechanism cannot be reliably proven, is, in fact, incongruent with medical practice. This does not negate the diagnosis. City of Chicago. [4]

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PROMs often solicit very private information from patients, and if the data are not stored securely, hackers and other unauthorized personnel may have access to more sensitive details than would otherwise be present in electronic health records. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023). Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Present circumstances might make it challenging to draw a similar line for take-home exposure causing COVID-19. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2023

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. The brains of children and young adults are significantly different from adult brains.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A diverse constellation of stakeholders from the global health community including the World Health Organization, charitable foundations, NGOs, and private entities came together to address the inextricable links between planetary health and human health. The post COP29 and the UNFCCCs Health Turn: Progress or Peril?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 29, 2022

Presenting an impairment or even a difference — even one that can be easily accommodated or that bears no relationship to performing on the job — still makes the person, unfortunately in the eyes of many, ‘disabled’ and less productive. On the other hand, this disclosure can induce unjustified assumptions and discrimination.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

For example, as Ben White suggests , “to understand human displacements, past and present, we need to consider animals too.” I propose that a different way of approaching this dilemma is to consider a plurality of perspectives. Particularly in the context of climate change , there is a need to see animal and human migration together.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. “During the chaos and confusion, threat actors launched cyberattacks,” Ordr observed in the wake of the public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 1, 2022

When the opportunity presents itself to take a stand, I hope you choose action, as we did. The fallout from the most recent Supreme Court ruling will be vast, and it will be destructive. We all know someone who has or will need an abortion — one in four women will in their lifetime.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies. It is amid this backdrop that we are proud to present our latest digital symposium, Build Back Better?

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

By Luciano Bottini Filho, Camila Gianella Malca, and Alicia Ely Yamin The intersection of health financing and the right to health is a common concern in public health advocacy. However, it is challenging to isolate the mechanisms that connect individuals’ rights with increased public investment.

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Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

Before the Supreme Court struck down the vaccinate-or-test rule, we presented 1500 US adults with different descriptions of the same requirement. Some commentators speculated that reframing the policy as a testing mandate would boost support. This study investigates how framing effects shape attitudes toward vaccination policies.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The growing push for the constitutional recognition of fetal personhood — the idea that a fertilized egg is a constitutionally-protected being independent from the pregnant person — presents further concerns for immigrants in the U.S. The prospect of fetal personhood raises questions about when U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With my ongoing focus on social determinants and drivers of health for health equity and access, the first essay that caught my attention is on Government Obligations and the Negative Right to a Healthy Urban Environment. The authors are affiliated with Case Western Reserve with interests in bioethics and medicine.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. And, crucially, the point of the rhetoric is to get people to come to believe all of that without anyone ever having to present an argument to that effect.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Instead, the administration mostly adapted by shifting its messaging.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. From early moments in 2020, the concept of a right to health — and indeed, even a right to life — has been discounted in American policy, discourse, and practice.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” ­­By Nate Holdren. Capitalism kills because destructive behaviors are, to an important extent, compulsory in this kind of society.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In particular, the continuing commitment to PEPFAR — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — was expanded in a five-year strategy with the explicit goal of ending global HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Shilts presents one alarming story after another.”

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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