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  • Announcements

    Penn Fellowship in Advanced Medical Ethics

    By The Petrie-Flom Center The Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine invites applications for a new postdoctoral Fellowship in Advanced Biomedical Ethics, beginning in September…

    Penn Fellowship in Advanced Medical Ethics

  • Bioethics

    Should Researchers Have a Professional Code of Ethics?

    By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. I was giving a workshop presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators and my co-presenter raised an interesting idea. Tommy Coggins of the University…

    Should Researchers Have a Professional Code of Ethics?

  • Government Regulation

    Bending the Cost Curve, Not Just Talking About It

    By Nicolas Terry When the 2012 history of health care is written, which date will have the largest entry, November 5 or 6? Of course, many (but not that many) provisions of the Affordable Care Act…

    Bending the Cost Curve, Not Just Talking About It

  • Announcements

    Introducing Christopher Robertson

    We’re excited to introduce and welcome Christopher Robertson as a guest blogger for the month of November.

    Introducing Christopher Robertson

  • Bioethics

    Reminder, TODAY – Advances in HIV Prevention: Legal, Clinical, and Public Health Issues

    TODAY! 12-1:30pm Austin Hall, Room 111 Harvard Law School On July 3, 2012, FDA approved OraQuick, the first at-home HIV test available for sale directly to consumers, allowing individuals to self-test and receive confidential results in…

    Reminder, TODAY – Advances in HIV Prevention: Legal, Clinical, and Public Health Issues

  • Bioethics

    Twitter Round-Up: What Our Bloggers Are Tweeting About (10/28-11/3)

    By Casey Thomson   [Ed. Note: Several of our bloggers are active on Twitter.  In a new feature, we’ll be posting some highlights of their tweets each week so you can stay in the know…

    Twitter Round-Up: What Our Bloggers Are Tweeting About (10/28-11/3)

  • Petrie-Flom Center

    Petrie-Flom Interns’ Weekly Round-up: 10/27 – 11/02

    By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Uruguay’s Senate approved a bill that allows women to have abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy for any reason. Read the NY Times article about the topic here.…

    Petrie-Flom Interns’ Weekly Round-up: 10/27 – 11/02

  • Announcements

    Institutional Corruption, Conflicts of Interest and Commitment, and Online Courses

    By I. Glenn Cohen I am writing this post from a terrific conference on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest In Research Universities, hosted at Harvard Law by the Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for…

    Institutional Corruption, Conflicts of Interest and Commitment, and Online Courses

  • Bioethics

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 11/02/12

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Sorry for the delay – the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a fantastic conference today on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research universities, which kept me away from a computer all day.…

    Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 11/02/12

  • Weekly Round-Up

    Worth Reading This Week

    By Nicolas Terry Christopher J. Phillips et al, Moneyball and Medicine, N Engl J Med Marc Rodwin, Conflicts of Interest, Institutional Corruption, and Pharma: An Agenda for Reform, SSRN/JLME Aaron S. Kesselheim et al, A Randomized…

    Worth Reading This Week