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  • Weekly Round-Up

    Yale Weekly Newsletter

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Check out the latest edition of the weekly Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics newsletter. For the full Friday newsletter archive, see their website.  

    Yale Weekly Newsletter

  • Bioethics

    PAPER NOW AVAILABLE for 11/18 Health Law Workshop w/Aaron Kesselheim

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Aaron Kesselheim is a physician and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. He will be speaking at the Petrie-Flom Health Law Workshop on Monday, November 18, at 5:00pm, on…

    PAPER NOW AVAILABLE for 11/18 Health Law Workshop w/Aaron Kesselheim

  • Events

    Video Now Available: Tulsa Law Review Symposium Honoring Einer Elhauge

    On Friday, October 4, the Tulsa Law Review hosted a symposium titled “Health Law Policy: Legal Issues in the Evolving Healthcare Market” honoring the work of Petrie-Flom Center Founding Director Einer Elhauge. I. Glenn Cohen, current Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom…

    Video Now Available: Tulsa Law Review Symposium Honoring Einer Elhauge

  • Bioethics

    11/21: Neil Flanzraich on “Responsibility and Integrity in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a lecture by Neil Flanzraich on responsible pricing strategy, access to care, clinical trial design, outsourcing, and other topics that raise thorny but crucial issues for pharmaceutical…

    11/21: Neil Flanzraich on “Responsibility and Integrity in the Pharmaceutical Industry”

  • Bioethics

    PRIM&R 2013 Advancing Ethical Research conference report: Paul Appelbaum on “therapeutic misconception”

    By Melissa Lopes Paul Appelbaum’s keynote address was both reflective and forward-looking in nature. He reflected back on his late ‘80s groundbreaking research introducing the concept of “therapeutic misconception” and challenged the audience to apply the…

    PRIM&R 2013 Advancing Ethical Research conference report: Paul Appelbaum on “therapeutic misconception”

  • Announcements

    Friday, 11/15: Health Law Opportunities at Harvard Law School

    Health Law Opportunities at Harvard Law School Friday, November 15, 2013 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall 3019 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 1Ls and 2Ls will have the opportunity to learn more about different classes and…

    Friday, 11/15: Health Law Opportunities at Harvard Law School

  • Animals

    Peter Singer on Animals and Ethics

    Video of the lecture is now available online. By Chloe Reichel Last Friday, Princeton ethicist Peter Singer joined Petrie-Flom for a lecture on “Ethics and Animals: Where are we now?” Singer began his talk with…

    Peter Singer on Animals and Ethics

  • Announcements

    DUE IN ONE WEEK: Applications for Petrie-Flom Academic Fellowship, 2014-2016

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Applications for the Petrie-Flom Center 2014-2016 Academic Fellowships are due on November 18, 2013. (Please note that applications submitted before November 18 will not be reviewed early.) PURPOSE: The Academic Fellowship is a postdoctoral…

    DUE IN ONE WEEK: Applications for Petrie-Flom Academic Fellowship, 2014-2016

  • Clinical Research

    FDA Suspension of Ponatinib: Serious Problem, Wrong Solution

    By Richard Epstein Bad News On December 14, 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration granted an accelerated approval to the drug Ponatinib, which is used to treat patients with serious and life threatening forms…

    FDA Suspension of Ponatinib: Serious Problem, Wrong Solution