Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
Holly Fernandez Lynch
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Read more: What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law? What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law?
This post was originally published on AM Rounds on January 14, 2020. By Holly Fernandez Lynch, Alison Bateman-House, and Suzanne M. Rivera Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers. But many academics realize that their expertise can be useful to policymakers and aim to make it widely available through…
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Read more: Payment, Lying, and Research Eligibility Payment, Lying, and Research Eligibility
Does payment in exchange for research participation encourage deception?
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Read more: New Article Examines the Possibility of Applying Workplace Safety Rules to the NFL New Article Examines the Possibility of Applying Workplace Safety Rules to the NFL
Part of the Law and Ethics Initiative of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University: Article authored by Adam M. Finkel, Chris Deubert, Orly Lobel, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director Could occupational health and safety laws be applied to better protect NFL players? A new analysis, published on April…
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Read more: TOMORROW, 11/9! Book Launch: Specimen Science – Ethics and Policy Implications TOMORROW, 11/9! Book Launch: Specimen Science – Ethics and Policy Implications
Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications November 9, 2017 12:00 PM Countway Library, Lahey Room Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA In September 2017, MIT Press will publish Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, co-edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch (outgoing Petrie-Flom Executive Director), Barbara Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Suzanne M. Rivera. This edited volume stems from a conference in 2015 that brought…
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Read more: Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications November 9, 2017 12:00 PM Countway Library, Lahey Room Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA In September 2017, MIT Press will publish Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, co-edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch (outgoing Petrie-Flom Executive Director), Barbara Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Suzanne M. Rivera. This edited volume stems from a conference in 2015 that brought…
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Read more: Final Common Rule Revisions Just Published Final Common Rule Revisions Just Published
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This morning, the Federal Register posted for public inspection the final rule revising the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (AKA “The Common Rule”). This has been a long, long road, beginning with an ANPRM in 2011 and a massive NPRM in 2015. The agencies clearly wanted to slide this…
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Read more: NEW REPORT: Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players – Legal and Ethical Analysis and Recommendations NEW REPORT: Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players – Legal and Ethical Analysis and Recommendations
The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University today released a set of legal and ethical recommendations to address a series of structural factors that affect NFL player health. The Football Players Health Study is a research initiative composed of several ongoing studies examining the health and wellbeing of NFL players. The newly released report,…
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Read more: Religion or Women? Religion or Women?
In response to the religious objections levied against the contraceptives coverage mandate at issue in Hobby Lobby, Zubik, and gobs of other cases, many have argued that this was really a matter of subjugating women – not about religion per se. Well, now we have a test case: Vermont’s governor just signed into law a requirement…
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Read more: SCOTUS and More Surprises on Zubik SCOTUS and More Surprises on Zubik
After the 2014 SCOTUS decision in Hobby Lobby, in which a closely-held for-profit employer won the argument that the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act protected it against enforcement of the government’s contraceptives coverage mandate, all eyes have been on what SCOTUS would do in response to a challenge to the very same accommodation it toyed…