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PFC Featured in The Practice Magazine
The January/February issue of The Practice magazine, from the HLS Center on the Legal Profession, includes a roundtable discussion with I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and Susannah Baruch.
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Simplification or Back to Square One? The Future of EU Medical AI Regulation
As part of a recent effort to simplify and harmonize its digital framework, the European Union (EU) is considering two interlinked regulatory proposals that could fundamentally reshape the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices.
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The Federal Government Undermines its Own HIV Targets by Restricting Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
During his first term in office, President Trump vowed in a 2019 State of the Union speech to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.”
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Can Pharma Companies Reverse String of Judicial Defeats at SCOTUS?
Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) provision granting Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices, pharmaceutical companies and allied organizations have brought a dozen lawsuits challenging the legality of the negotiation program.
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Hippocratic Quantum: The Ethics of Biomedical Discovery in the Quantum Age
Quantum technology is increasingly described as the telescope of the 21st century: a scientific instrument that expands what humans can observe, simulate, and engineer.
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Rethinking Maryland v. King Amid the Changing Landscape of Technology and Privacy
In a landmark 2013 decision, Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court upheld mandatory DNA collection from arrestees as part of booking procedures, likening cheek swabs to fingerprinting. But 13 years later, renewed public concern about genetic privacy seriously undermines the assumptions underlying King.
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
