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  • Bioethics

    Great Bioethics Resource from Boston Children’s Hospital

    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…

    Great Bioethics Resource from Boston Children’s Hospital

  • Reproductive Health

    Why Did Egg Freezing Wait So Long?

    [Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions] By Gaia Bernstein Egg freezing has become the new hot trend in the infertility industry. Although infertility practitioners first used egg freezing in the mid 1980s, it was only recently that success…

    Why Did Egg Freezing Wait So Long?

  • Bioethics

    Film Review: How to Survive a Plague

    By Suzanne M. Rivera How to Survive a Plague is a moving chronicle of the onset of the AIDS epidemic as seen through the lens of the activists who mobilized to identify and make available…

    Film Review: How to Survive a Plague

  • Weekly Round-Up

    Worth Reading This Week

    By Nicolas Terry Efthimios Parasidis, Justice and Beneficence in Military Medicine and Research, SSRN/Ohio State LJ Sara Rosenbaum, Threading the Needle — Medicaid and the 113th Congress, NEJM David Orentlicher, NFIB v. Sibelius: Proportionality in the…

    Worth Reading This Week

  • Bioethics

    Save the Date: Health Law Year in P/Review, Friday 2/1/13

    Friday, February 1, 2013 1:00-5:00pm Wasserstein Hall 2036, Milstein East C, Harvard Law School Health Law Year in P/Review Please save the date for an upcoming panel on several recent developments and developments to come…

    Save the Date: Health Law Year in P/Review, Friday 2/1/13

  • Announcements

    The Future of Biomedical Research Funding

    By Patrick O’Leary As I’ve written about previously on this blog, the consequences for the FDA of budget sequestration under the Budget Control Act of 2011 could be fairly severe (as well as raise some…

    The Future of Biomedical Research Funding

  • Liability

    A Different Take on the New Murtagh Study on MedMal Disclosures, and A Few Thoughts on Friendly Attorneys

    By Christopher Robertson On these pages, Michelle Mello recently posted a discussion of her new article with Lindsey Murtagh, Thomas Gallagher, and Penny Andrew, called “Disclosure-And-Resolution Programs That Include Generous Compensation Offers May Prompt A Complex…

    A Different Take on the New Murtagh Study on MedMal Disclosures, and A Few Thoughts on Friendly Attorneys

  • Biotechnology

    Upcoming event: Lecture on Hormonally Active Pollutants by Joan Ruderman

    Tuesday, 5pm Sheerr Room, Fay House 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA Joan Ruderman will be giving a talk titled, “Hormonally Active Pollutants: What Are They, What Can They Do, and How Do We Know They’re Out…

    Upcoming event: Lecture on Hormonally Active Pollutants by Joan Ruderman

  • Bioethics

    “Biotestament? Facebook can help you”

    By Cristiane Avancini Alves The question reproduced in the title was posed – last year – by the Italian newspaper “Corriere della Sera“, which described how an Italian association created an application in the social…

    “Biotestament? Facebook can help you”

  • Announcements

    Twitter Round-Up (12/2-12/8)

    By Casey Thomson   This week’s Twitter Round-Up features an “American Idol-style” selection of research grant winners, the problems facing children in Syria attempting to be vaccinated, and a review of where we stand with…

    Twitter Round-Up (12/2-12/8)