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…
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…
The Petrie-Flom Center recently co-hosted a conference with the Safra Center on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research Universities (fCOI), exploring situations where universities get cozy with industry. My friend, Jonathan Marks, is doing some really interesting work…
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…
We’ve roped in another one! Nadia Sawicki started with us as a guest blogger this Fall and has decided to stay on indefinitely. We’re thrilled to have her. Keep an eye out for her always insightful…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Enjoy this week’s Friday Newsletter from Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. As always, slightly edited for our readership.
By The Petrie-Flom Center Another reminder: abstracts for the Petrie-Flom Center’s annual conference – this year entitled “The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century” – are due one week from today, no later than December 14, 2012. …
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research The Congressional Budget Office just released a comprehensive new report investigating the budgetary effects of a hypothetical increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes and…
By Nadia N. Sawicki Google’s informal corporate slogan is “Don’t be evil.” Whole Foods is a Fortune 500 company with a net revenue of 10 billion dollar that prides itself on a commitment to social responsibility. …
