News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Medicine"
Pediatric Drug and Other Shortages in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption
The last year witnessed several significant shortages of key medicines and other products for children, including children’s formulations of acetaminophen and ibuprofen as well as frontline antibiotics prescribed…
Observational Studies Must be Reformed Before the Next Pandemic
Observational studies provide crucial information early during epidemics and pandemics, but they often suffer from methodological shortcomings, which can be resolved.
The Challenges for Regulating Medical Use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Model
The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical devices, decision support, and clinical practice is not new, with a particular uptick in investment and deployment within the past decade. What…
Call for Applications: Associate Director of Public Policy, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)
Job Title: Associate Director of Public Policy Department: Public Policy Reports to: Executive Director Overview: Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) is an…
Multiple Job Openings: Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine
Positions include: Postdoctoral Associate - ELSI/Ethics & Policy Research - Forensic Use of DNA Bioethics Research Assistant I - Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of Genomics Bioethics and Health…
Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography
Is Translational Science and Medicine new? Its dramatic expansion has spelled a dizzying array of new disciplines, departments, buildings, and terminology. Yet, without novel theories or concepts, Translational Science and…
Why the Medicine You Take Could Actually be Bad for Your Health
From the article: Premature birth can be terrifying. Although survival rates for babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy have steadily improved, they are still significantly worse than those of babies…
Medical Legal Partnership Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School
Medical Legal Partnership Director The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, in collaboration with Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale School of Medicine, seeks applications…
Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference 2019: Controlling Death: The Policies, Practices, and Ethics of Choosing When We Die
Couldn't join us? Check out the Harvard Gazette's coverage of the event! Alvin Powell, "As the end nears, who’s in control?: Center for Bioethics examines physicians…
Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Read the full introduction online now! This edited volume stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2017 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to reach better understandings of this health…
Health Law Workshop: Craig Konnoth
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Medical Civil Rights" About the Presenter Craig Konnoth is Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law. His work lies at the intersection of health law and…
A Fear of Lawsuits Really Does Seem to Result in Extra Medical Tests
From the article: Mr. Gruber and Michael D. Frakes, a Duke economist and lawyer, looked at the health care system for active-duty members of the military. Under longstanding law, such…
Defensive Medicine: Evidence from Military Immunity
From the abstract: We estimate the extent of defensive medicine by physicians, embracing the no-liability counterfactual made possible by the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty…
Circumvention Medical Tourism and Cutting Edge Medicine: The Case of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy
From the article: “Medical Tourism” is the travel of patients from a home country to a destination country for the primary purpose of receiving health care. “Circumvention…
HealthAffairs Podcast: Precision Medicine
Overview of the Podcast: The May 2018 issue of Health Affairs on "Precision Medicine," contains a timely and comprehensive look at the use of data and genetic information to better diagnose…
Call for Abstracts: Eight Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, Western Michigan University
General Description: The eighth annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference (September 13-14, 2018) is seeking abstract submissions that showcase innovative approaches to the arts, languages, and philosophies that guide society…
Precision Medicines Have Faster Approvals Based On Fewer And Smaller Trials Than Other Medicines
From the article: Precision medicines can benefit patients by increasing the probability of a successful treatment response in selected patient populations. The potential for more immediate signals of efficacy during…
Our Aging Brains: Decision-making, Fraud, and Undue Influence
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation online! #OurAgingBrains @PetrieFlom @mghclbb Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! With over 70 million Baby Boomers retiring, elder financial exploitation…
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Medicine, The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
General Description: The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and the Information Society Project —in partnership with the Yale Journal of Health Policy,…
Call for Entries: The 19th Annual Henry K. Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics, Center for Bioethics Harvard Medical School
General Description: The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the annual Henry K. Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics. A prize of $1,000…
NSHRF Hosts AMS Funding Competitions / Fellowship, Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
General Description: Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF) is hosting the Associated Medical Services (AMS) project grant, postdoctoral fellowship and doctoral completion award program. The purpose of these…
Regulating Black-Box Medicine
From the paper: Data drive modern medicine. And our tools to analyze those data are growing ever more powerful. As health data are collected in greater and greater amounts, sophisticated…
2018-2019 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM), a multidisciplinary research unit sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School Dean's Office, the Office of Clinical Affairs,…
Health Law Workshop: David M. Studdert
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Once Ticketed, Twice Shy? Specific Deterrence from Road Traffic Laws" About the Presenter David M. Studdert is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Law at Stanford…
HLS in the World: New Technologies, New Dilemmas: Part of the HLS200 Bicentennial Celebration
This event was part of the HLS in the World sessions of HLS │200, a bicentennial summit of academic sessions and programs devoted to legal issues of pressing importance. Panel Description …
Axios Vitals post from October 4
From the post: Medicaid and value-based drug deals: New research casts some doubt on the pharmaceutical industry's claim that Medicaid's "best-price" rule inhibits its ability to create contracts…
Health Law Workshop: Jody L. Madeira
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Terminating the Paper Trail: Evaluating the Efficacy of a Multimedia Informed Consent Application in Reproductive Medicine" For context, please also read: "Is Informed Consent in Reproductive…
Health Law Workshop: William M. Sage
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Fracking Health Care: The Need to Safely De-Medicalize America and Recover Trapped Value for Its People" About the Presenter William M. Sage is James R. Dougherty…
From the Technical to the Personal: Teaching and Learning Health Insurance Regulation and Reform
From the article: In the Fall of 2016, I taught Health Law and Policy for the fourth consecutive semester. In this repeat loop, one thing has become increasingly clear: the aspect…
Health Law Workshop: Judith Daar
Presentation Download the Presentation: "A Clash at the Petri Dish: Transferring Embryos with Known Genetic Anomalies" About the Presenter Judith Daar is Professor of Law at Whittier Law School with…
Medical Errors and the Culture of Medicine: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Panelists Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Timothy Hofer, MD,…
Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
Duties & Responsibilities The Executive Director works in partnership with the Faculty Director on strategic planning and vision for the Center, and oversees the Center’s staff, activities, and…
Regulating Black-Box Medicine
From the abstract: Data drive modern medicine. And our tools to analyze those data are growing ever more powerful. As health data are collected in greater and greater amounts, sophisticated…
2018 Brocher Foundation Call for Proposals, Brocher Foundation, Switzerland
Call for proposals for the 2018 events is launched! The Brocher Foundation offers to researchers the opportunity to organize a one and a half day multidisciplinary symposium or a…
Review of The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: by Matthew L. Baum (Student Fellow Alumnus)
Matthew L. Baum. The Neuroethics of Biomarkers: What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. From the review: The…
2-year Fellowship, The Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medicine
The fellowship is part of the New York-Houston Medical Ethics Consortium, which brings together Houston Methodist Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and the NewYork-Presbyterian…
Division of Medical Ethics Visiting Scholar Program, NYU
The Division of Medical Ethics announces a Visiting Scholar Program. The Division of Medical Ethics, directed by Arthur Caplan, PhD, has particular strengths in research ethics, sports ethics, transplant…
Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed?: HLS Dean Martha Minow to Deliver 2016 George W. Gay Lecture
2016 George W. Gay Lecture Religion, Medicine, and Law: Can Current Conflicts Be Healed? Martha Minow Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Thursday, November 3, 2016, 4:30 …
Call for Applications: Student Fellowships for Master’s Degree Programs, Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School
Student fellowship programs are at the heart of the Center for Public Leadership’s mission to forge leaders capable of solving the world’s most pressing problems across…
Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen Joins National Academy of Sciences Committee: Cohen and HMS Center for Bioethics Director Robert Truog to Advise on Issues in Organ Donor Intervention Research
I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and Robert Truog, Director of the Harvard Medical School Center…
The Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics, Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
THE SHERWIN B. NULAND SUMMER INSTITUTE IN BIOETHICS May 29 – July 21, 2017 • New Haven, CT Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics hosts an intensive Summer Institute for U.S.…
Professor offers basics of bioethics and the law in 90 minutes: Harvard expert breaks down complex topic for Ed Portal and online audience
On September 13, 2016, Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen delivered a lecture at the Harvard Ed Portal as part of his online EdX course "Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of…
Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics: New EdX Course from Faculty Director Glenn Cohen
Bioethics: The Law, Medicine, and Ethics of Reproductive Technologies and Genetics An introduction to the study of bioethics and the application of legal and ethical reasoning. Course begins on September 6, 2016.…
At the Frontier: The Ethics of Innovative Surgery: A Neuroethics Seminar Series Event
All modern surgical techniques were once new, so the ethics of surgical innovation is not a new topic. But as our understanding of the brain advances, so does our ability…
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: New Master of Bioethics Program at Harvard Medical School
The Petrie-Flom Center is pleased to announce that our colleagues at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics have launched a new Master of Bioethics degree. Petrie-Flom will be…
Health Law Workshop: Robert Truog
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Defining Death: Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons" About the Presenter Robert D. Truog is Professor of Medical Ethics, Anaesthesiology & Pediatrics at Harvard…
Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs Presents at 2015 Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium
Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs presented her paper, "Innovation Law and Policy: Preserving the Future of Personalized Medicine," at the 2015 Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium. Held this year on…