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Dov Fox

  • Criminal Law

    Fox on DNA Forensic Error and the Execution of Innocents

    By Dov Fox Willie Jerome Manning, a 44-year-old black man, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for the 1992 kidnapping and murder of white college students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller in…

    Fox on DNA Forensic Error and the Execution of Innocents

  • FDA

    Big Data and Pharmacovigilance, Part II

    By Dov Fox Yesterday, I wrote about Ryan Abbott‘s new article that proposes to use health information exchanges to improve the collection of data about the safety of approved drugs. Today, I want to address his recommendation that the…

    Big Data and Pharmacovigilance, Part II

  • Data Privacy

    Big Data and Pharmacovigilance, Part I

    By Dov Fox So much new data are created every day that 90 percent of all data worldwide has emerged in just the last two years. This information revolution has the potential, argues Bill of Health guest blogger Ryan…

    Big Data and Pharmacovigilance, Part I

  • Bioethics

    Fox on “The Flawed Logic of Prenatal Discrimination”

    Dov Fox has an interesting new piece up at HuffPo examining the constitutionality of the abortion restrictions just enacted  in North Dakota: As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the same-sex marriage…

    Fox on “The Flawed Logic of Prenatal Discrimination”

  • Animals

    Cyborg Bugs and Glow-in-the-Dark Cats

    By Dov Fox That’s what CNN called yesterday’s report with science writer Emily Anthes about her new book, Frankenstein’s Cat, which examines “genetically modified this, or cloned that,” as she put it, or “creatures that combine electronic…

    Cyborg Bugs and Glow-in-the-Dark Cats

  • Bioethics

    Fox on Prenatal Genetic Testing

    A front-page story in today’s Sunday Boston Globe quotes Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox on whether the routine use of new prenatal blood testing could “‘bring a tendency to exclude rather than accommodate people whose abilities fail to meet…

    Fox on Prenatal Genetic Testing

  • FDA

    Birth Control for Men?

    By Dov Fox We’re not talking vasectomies or condoms. Medical Daily reports that the NIH has awarded a $4.7 million grant to come up with a “Pill” for men. Most previous attempts to develop such contraceptives used testosterone…

    Birth Control for Men?

  • Disability

    The U.S. Should Cover the Cost of IVF (for Gays and Lesbians Too)

    By Dov Fox Glenn Cohen and I make the case in this morning’s Huffington Post: This week the United Kingdom joined the ranks of countries like Canada, Israel, and Sweden that provide in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to citizens under a certain…

    The U.S. Should Cover the Cost of IVF (for Gays and Lesbians Too)

  • Bioethics

    The ADA and Declining Down Syndrome Birthrates

    By Dov Fox Having a child is hard work. It can be especially taxing—“physically, emotionally, and of course, financi[]ally, to bring a child with [disabilities] . . . into the world and raise it,” as…

    The ADA and Declining Down Syndrome Birthrates