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Wendy Salkin

  • Bioethics

    A Quarter of the Work Force: International Medical Graduates and the Lives They Save

    By Wendy S. Salkin On Monday, May 1, 2017, International Workers’ Day, thousands took to the streets across the United States to demonstrate in support of immigrants’ rights in the United States and against immigration policies…

    A Quarter of the Work Force: International Medical Graduates and the Lives They Save

  • Bioethics

    Epistemic Injustice, Procedural Fairness, and the Real Weight of Medical Evidence

    By Wendy S. Salkin March 6, 2017 In his lucid and fascinating February 2017 article in the AMA Journal of Ethics, “What is the Relevance of Procedural Fairness to Making Determinations about Medical Evidence?,” Govind Persad,…

    Epistemic Injustice, Procedural Fairness, and the Real Weight of Medical Evidence

  • Bioethics

    “There are millions of people who are living below subsistence”: Black Panther Party Founder Bobby Seale as Public Health Activist

    By Wendy S. Salkin Picture it: Tuesday, February 14, 2017. It is four o’clock and the Tsai Auditorium of the Center for Government and International Studies is packed to the gills, abuzz with energy. Harvard faculty,…

    “There are millions of people who are living below subsistence”: Black Panther Party Founder Bobby Seale as Public Health Activist

  • Bioethics

    American Psychiatric Association Releases Formal Position Statement on Euthanasia

    By Wendy S. Salkin Last month, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a position statement on medical euthanasia. The statement, approved by the APA Assembly in November and approved by the Board of Trustees in December, states:…

    American Psychiatric Association Releases Formal Position Statement on Euthanasia

  • Animal Research

    Violations of federal antifraud provisions alleged against two hepatitis B treatment producers

    By Wendy S. Salkin Two investor class-action suits have been filed within days of one another against two different California-based pharmaceutical companies both of which produce hepatitis B treatments, Dynavax Technologies and Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals. The named…

    Violations of federal antifraud provisions alleged against two hepatitis B treatment producers

  • Bioethics

    “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America

    By Wendy S. Salkin I. Our Bodies, Our Body Politic On March 30, at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, an audience member asked then-presidential-hopeful Donald J. Trump: “[W]hat is your stance on women’s…

    “That I Don’t Know”: The Uncertain Futures of Our Bodies in America

  • Bioethics

    Loneliness as epidemic

    By Wendy S. Salkin Just a few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an article confirming that, indeed, we are facing an epidemic of loneliness. There is “mounting evidence” that links loneliness to illness,…

    Loneliness as epidemic

  • Bioethics

    CMS Prohibits Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Facility Contracts

    By Wendy S. Salkin On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)—an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—released a final rule that “will revise the requirements that Long-Term Care facilities [LTCs]…

    CMS Prohibits Arbitration Clauses in Long-Term Care Facility Contracts