Author

Julia Etkin

  • End-of-Life

    New York Enacts Medical Aid in Dying

    New York is now the 14th U.S. jurisdiction to authorize Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), concluding a decade of legislative effort. 

    New York Enacts Medical Aid in Dying

  • Psychedelics & Drug Policy

    Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs

    Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.

    Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs

  • Clinical Research

    Predictive Persons: Privacy Law and Digital Twins

    Imagine a clinical trial where the control group never sets foot in a clinic – because they don’t need to, and they don’t have feet. These “participants” are digital twins: computational models of real patients, built…

    Predictive Persons: Privacy Law and Digital Twins

  • Reproductive Health

    When Evidence Burns: Abortifacient Ideology and the FDA

    Nearly $10 million worth of birth control products purchased by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) are slated for incineration at the direction of the Trump Administration, which falsely claims they cause abortions. 

    When Evidence Burns: Abortifacient Ideology and the FDA