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We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
Content includes a course in clinical ethics for medical students, with lectures on surrogate decision-making and advance directives.
This post was originally published on AM Rounds on January 14, 2020. By Holly Fernandez Lynch, Alison Bateman-House, and Suzanne M. Rivera Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers.…
Does payment in exchange for research participation encourage deception?
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This morning, the Federal Register posted for public inspection the final rule revising the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (AKA “The Common Rule”). This has been a long,…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch In response to the religious objections levied against the contraceptives coverage mandate at issue in Hobby Lobby, Zubik, and gobs of other cases, many have argued that this was really a matter…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch After the 2014 SCOTUS decision in Hobby Lobby, in which a closely-held for-profit employer won the argument that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected it against enforcement of the government’s…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch The public comment period on the NPRM to revise the Common Rule has just closed, and now we wait to see what happens (if anything), and when. One of the most controversial…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch In the late 1940s, US government scientists, in collaboration with Guatemalan counterparts, were involved in a horrible array of experiments on human subjects in which a variety of vulnerable groups in…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Perhaps foreshadowed by the dissent in the 10th Circuit that I wrote about here, the 8th Circuit has now officially launched a circuit split regarding the legal validity of the accommodation…
