What Should Happen to our Medical Records When We Die?
In the next 200 years, at least 20 billion people will die — and the issue of how best to manage their posthumous medical records is unclear.
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Read more: Human Trafficking: Response Strategies for Healthcare Providers and Public Safety Officials Human Trafficking: Response Strategies for Healthcare Providers and Public Safety Officials
Boston area healthcare providers, public safety officials and mental health clinicians will hear from experts on human trafficking including healthcare providers, law enforcement, government officials, outreach workers and survivors at an upcoming conference hosted by the Northeastern University’s School of Nursing.
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Read more: Global Health Justice and Governance: Challenges and Proposals Global Health Justice and Governance: Challenges and Proposals
What does a human rights perspective add to telling us what health inequalities (within and between countries) are inequities and injustices—as opposed to disparities?
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Read more: The Future of Health Care? How States are Trailblazing Medicaid Buy-In Programs The Future of Health Care? How States are Trailblazing Medicaid Buy-In Programs
Is there a role for the government to play a greater role in making health insurance affordable and accessible? As public support for action on health care grows, what options are available to states now?
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Read more: Jennifer Prah Ruger: The World Needs a New Global Health Architecture Jennifer Prah Ruger: The World Needs a New Global Health Architecture
In her new book, “Global Health Justice and Governance,” Dr. Prah Ruger lays out the critical problems facing the world today and offers a new theory of justice and governance as a way to resolve these seemingly intractable issues.
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Read more: Gene Editing and Intellectual Property: A Useful Mix? Gene Editing and Intellectual Property: A Useful Mix?
Join us March 8 for a talk that will cover the science of genome editing, including CRISPR, and in particular, the scientific advances made in the field since its principal discovery as an engineering tool in 2012.
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Read more: Black-Box Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues Black-Box Medicine: Legal and Ethical Issues
Join us on Friday for Health Policy Biothics Consortium!
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Read more: 3 Things You Should Know About the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2019 Annual Conference 3 Things You Should Know About the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2019 Annual Conference
Now is the time to reconsider what ethical and regulatory safeguards should be implemented and discuss the many questions raised by advancements in consumer genetics.
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Read more: Friday: FDA Chief Counsel Stacy Cline Amin and more at 7th Annual Health Law in P/Review Friday: FDA Chief Counsel Stacy Cline Amin and more at 7th Annual Health Law in P/Review
This year brought with it a wave of interesting issues in the health law arena—be it questions of limiting health care access to immigrants, the ongoing challenges of the opioid epidemic, or the ever-changing landscape of drug pricing. Join us as we unpack the major health law developments of 2019 and discuss what to watch…
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Read more: Anya Prince on Gene Therapy and Exacerbating Health Care Inequalities Anya Prince on Gene Therapy and Exacerbating Health Care Inequalities
By Alex Pearlman Anya Prince, a legal scholar and thought leader in the field of genetic discrimination, will present a new paper at Monday’s Health Law Workshop that interrogates whether gene therapies will exacerbate inequalities in health care, as more treatments enter the market. “Gene Therapy’s Field of Dreams: If You Build It, Will We Pay?”…
