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By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett joined other Republicans in vowing not to set up a state-wide health care exchange, citing a lack of resources and preparation in order to do…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Last call! Abstracts for the Petrie-Flom Center’s annual conference – this year entitled “The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century” – are due today. This one and a half day event will…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Just a quick note to let you know about a great resource provided by the librarian at Boston Children’s Hospital. Each month, she compiles recent articles related to bioethics in general…
By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re excited to welcome and introduce Gaia Bernstein as a guest blogger. She will be cross-posting from Concurring Opinions this month.
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a federal body that advises Congress on Medicare, on Thursday issued its annual report to Congress that recommended increasing hospitals’ inpatient and outpatient…
By Max Mehlman In my new book from the Johns Hopkins University Press, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering, I observe that the government might try to use its…
By Dan Vorhaus (Cross-Posted from Genomics Law Report) Earlier this month, my colleagues John Conley, Robert Cook-Deegan, James Evans and I published a policy article in the European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) entitled “The next controversy…
By Dan Vorhaus (Cross-Posted from Genomics Law Report) This morning, Gene By Gene, Ltd. – better known as the parent company of the popular genetic genealogy provider Family Tree DNA – formally announced a corporate reorganization that includes the debut of a new…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) disciplines. This program is open to undergraduate students in…
By The Petrie-Flom Center TODAY 3:00-4:00pm (reception to follow) Milstein Conference Rooms, Wasserstein Building, Harvard Law School Nourishing a Legal Career in the Life Sciences Please join us for a career discussion with Amy Schulman, Lecturer…
