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Hospitals are Testing AI to Communicate with Patients. They Still Don’t Know How to Talk to Them About It


Mohana Ravindranath, quoting Glenn Cohen
STAT

Health systems across the country are exploring blending artificial intelligence into their communication with patients, from billing to after-hours messages about medication or symptoms. But how best to actually talk…

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Groups Sue to Overturn Idaho ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Law Targeting Teens


Sarah Varney, quoting I. Glenn Cohen
KFF Health News

Advocates who counsel and aid Idaho teenagers seeking abortion care filed suit Tuesday against Republican Attorney General Raúl Labrador in a bid to overturn the state’s…

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The Antibody Patent Paradox


Cited in Amgen v. Sanofi (2023), by Mark A. Lemley and Jacob S. Sherkow
Yale Law Journal

The immune system produces antibodies as a defense to foreign agents called antigens. When a particular anti- gen—a virus, for example—enters the body, the immune system…

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Supreme Court Sides with Sanofi, Regeneron in Patent Fight with Amgen


Christopher Newman, featuring Jacob Sherkow
Biopharma Dive

Gorsuch acknowledged a patent does not need to disclose each single possible embodiment of the invention. But he added that examples of the claimed class need to have some common…

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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2


Dan Gorenstein, featuring Carmel Shachar
Tradeoffs Podcast

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Appeals court judges hammer FDA, drugmaker over abortion pill mifepristone


Spencer Kimball, featuring I. Glenn Cohen
CNBC

Glenn Cohen, a former DOJ lawyer, said the current three-judge panel is not bound by the prior panel’s decision in April. The new panel could issue an order…

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Panel urges caution in tying sexual orientation, education levels to gene


Jocelyn Kaiser, featuring Michelle N. Meyer
Science

“There are people in the group who probably would say there is no risk benefit profile of any sort of group comparison research that will ever be acceptable,”…

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PASTE, Don’t Cut: Genome Editing Tool Looks Beyond CRISPR and Prime


Alex Philippidis, featuring Jacob Sherkow
GEN Edge

Jacob S. Sherkow, JD, a professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and an authority on the long-standing CRISPR-Cas9 patent standoff,…

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Drugmakers take sides in Amgen, Regeneron fight over antibody patents


Christopher Newman, featuring Jacob Sherkow
BiopharmaDIVE

“This is a showdown about whether the most valuable patents in the entirety of the patent system are valid,” said Jacob Sherkow, a University of Illinois professor who…