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  • Biotechnology

    Nice Jotwell review of former Petrie-Flom Fellows’ article “Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns”

    By I. Glenn Cohen Over at Jotwell, Michael Carroll (American) has a very nice review of a new paper that is a collaboration between two of our former fellows at the Petrie-Flom Center, Michael Frakes…

    Nice Jotwell review of former Petrie-Flom Fellows’ article “Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns”

  • Bioethics

    Glenn Cohen on Medical Tourism

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Check out this great summary piece in the Harvard Gazette discussing Glenn Cohen‘s work on medical tourism, including some audio of his recent lecture at the Radcliffe Institute.  

    Glenn Cohen on Medical Tourism

  • Empirical

    Early Warning on Heroin and Syringe Exchange?

    By Scott Burris It’s hard to believe that after all these years, all the evidence, and all the reductions in HIV among injection drug users, we still only have 15 states that explicitly authorize syringe…

    Early Warning on Heroin and Syringe Exchange?

  • Market Design

    Al Roth – Nobel Prize Winner!

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Congrats to our blogger, Al Roth, for his Nobel Prize in economics (alongside Lloyd S. Shapley of UCLA)!  Al built on Shapley’s theories about the best ways to match “agents” in markets —…

    Al Roth – Nobel Prize Winner!

  • Announcements

    Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Scientist Positions

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Liberty Mutual Research Institute/Harvard School of Public Health + Univ. of Massachusetts – Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Scientist Positions HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: The Center for Disability Research…

    Health Services Research Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Scientist Positions

  • Health Law Policy

    Soda Industry Sues to Block NYC Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales

    By Rebecca Haffajee Sure enough, last Friday the American Beverage Association and others, represented by Latham & Watkins, sued to block Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages larger than 16 oz at…

    Soda Industry Sues to Block NYC Ban on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Sales

  • Government Regulation

    Reality Check, Please!

    By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. By now, many people have seen a still photo or video footage of Rep. Paul Broun (R-Georgia), standing in front of a wall full of deer heads, proclaiming that evolution,…

    Reality Check, Please!

  • Bioethics

    Reporting Information about Clinical Trial Data: Passing the Torch from HHS to the FDA

    By Leslie P. Francis In 2007, motivated by concerns that pharmaceutical companies were not sharing negative data about what had been learned in clinical trials, Congress established enhanced reporting requirements. A series of articles published…

    Reporting Information about Clinical Trial Data: Passing the Torch from HHS to the FDA