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By The Petrie-Flom Center Check out this great summary piece in the Harvard Gazette discussing Glenn Cohen‘s work on medical tourism, including some audio of his recent lecture at the Radcliffe Institute.
By The Petrie-Flom Center Congrats to our blogger, Al Roth, for his Nobel Prize in economics (alongside Lloyd S. Shapley of UCLA)! Al built on Shapley’s theories about the best ways to match “agents” in markets —…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Liberty Mutual Research Institute/Harvard School of Public Health + Univ. of Massachusetts – Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Scientist Positions HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: The Center for Disability Research…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s this week’s (slightly abridged) edition. Enjoy!
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park Despite protests, Rhode Island instituted a mandate for flu shots for all healthcare workers. This includes doctors, nurses, other employees, and volunteers at hospitals, nursing homes, and health-related…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Glenn Cohen and his co-author, Eli Adashi, have a new blog post out at the JAMA Forum on reproductive freedom and the presidential election: It is commonly assumed that the economy…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Just a reminder to spread the word about the Petrie-Flom Academic Fellowship Program. We are currently accepting applications for the 2013-2015 fellowship cohort. Applications are due Nov. 16, 2012. The full…
By The Petrie-Flom Center What were they thinking? Placebo-controlled trials before informed consent Franklin G. Miller, Ph.D., Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health October 25, 2012 – 4pm Shapiro Clinical Center JCRT 5A (East Campus), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA Sponsored by the Program in…
Al Roth has an interesting post up today at his Market Design blog referencing some data on the crowding out effect, i.e., the idea that if you pay people for something that they are currently…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s the latest edition, edited down a bit for our readership.
