By Scott Burris This is a succinct paragraph from the weekly newsletter of U. Maryland’s Center for Substance Abuse Research. Seems relevant both to the conference on law enforcement and public health I reported on…
By Adriana Benedict As of 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy requires “that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic…
By Christopher Robertson Paul Gowder (Iowa Law) has shared a draft of his new article, Death and Taxes in NFIB v Sebelius. Gowder thoughtfully develops some of the themes that I gestured towards in my “Lopsided Giant”…
TODAY 12:30-2:00 Wasserstein Hall, Classroom 3019 Harvard Law School In the late 1940s, US and Guatemalan researchers conducted a host of experiments on vulnerable Guatemalan subjects, purposefully exposing them to, and infecting them with a number of…
By Laura Stark When it comes to research with human subjects, about 60 percent of faculty members and 50 percent of graduate students learned about ethics through online or print resources according to a recent…
By Scott Burris We know, and now most people acknowledge, that police activity has some clear, and in some instances intentional, effects on health. To start with the obvious, police are instrumental in reducing the…
By Casey Thomson [Ed. Note. 11/12/12: Just to be clear, retweeting should not be read as an endorsement of or agreement with the content of the original tweet.] With Election Day now come and gone,…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Just a reminder, abstracts for the Petrie-Flom Center’s annual conference – this year entitled “The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century” – are due no later than December 10, 2012. This…
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park One of the lesser-heralded decisions to come from the elections this Tuesday was the LA county ballot measure requiring male actors in the porn industry to wear condoms during…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s this week’s Yale Friday Newsletter, slightly edited for our readers. Enjoy!
