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Social Media on Trial: Neuroscience, Addiction, and the Law

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Join us for a lunchtime webinar on the neuroscience of social media use and its implications for law and public policy.

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Call for Abstracts: Generative AI in Health Care

As part of our Petrie-Flom Center 2027 Annual Conference we seek papers that offer innovative perspectives and inventive approaches.

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Who Counts as Infertile? A Missed Opportunity for Inclusion

Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen recently co-wrote a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine addressing gaps in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definition of infertility.

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The Future of Family Planning Is Here. Is the Constitution Ready?

Published in the MIT Press Reader, Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen writes about reproductive technology.

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