Public Health

  • Read more: Caplan on Morality of Flu Vaccine Mandates
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    Caplan on Morality of Flu Vaccine Mandates

    By Arthur Caplan It’s password protected, but Art Caplan has a new short piece out in Clinical Therapeutics: “Morality of Influenza Vaccine Mandates.”  Take a look.

  • Read more: Reducing Gun Violence in America
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    Reducing Gun Violence in America

    By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Typically, we would avoid such a shameless plug for our researchers — we’d be a little more subtle. But, we can’t help it this time. This book is the best $10 you’ll spend all year. A little less than a month ago, Johns Hopkins University convened…

  • Read more: Are You Ready for Some . . . Research? Uncertain Diagnoses, Research Data Privacy, & Preference Heterogeneity
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    Are You Ready for Some . . . Research? Uncertain Diagnoses, Research Data Privacy, & Preference Heterogeneity

    By Michelle Meyer As most readers are probably aware, the past few years have seen considerable media and clinical interest in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive, neurodegenerative condition linked to, and thought to result from, concussions, blasts, and other forms of brain injury (including, importantly, repeated but milder sub-concussion-level injuries) that can lead to…

  • Read more: Prosecuting Rape Victims, What Next?
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    Prosecuting Rape Victims, What Next?

    By Michele Goodwin In the wake of an election season peppered with references to rape by legislators vying for reelection or elevation to more prominent political positions: Representative Todd Akin’s woefully unscientific claim that “legitimate” rapes rarely result in pregnancy because women can “shut that whole thing down” or Richard Mourdock, Indiana state treasurer, reminding…

  • Read more: Save The Date: Making Science Work with Sir Paul M. Nurse
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    Save The Date: Making Science Work with Sir Paul M. Nurse

    By The Petrie-Flom Center With Panelists: Eric Lander, Broad Institute and Biology, MIT Lisa Randall, Physics, Harvard University Charles Rosenberg, History of Science, Harvard University Moderated by: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday, February 65:00 – 7:00 pm Pfizer Lecture HallMallinckrodt Chemistry Lab B2312 Oxford Street, Harvard UniversityCambridge,…

  • Read more: No Access to Medicines without Access to Research
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    No Access to Medicines without Access to Research

    By Adriana Benedict In December, I wrote a blog post noting that access to biomedical research is critical not only for informed patient care, but also for the sustainable development of pharmaceutical R&D responsive to local needs, especially in developing countries.  In recent years, open access issues have taken on an increasingly important role in…

  • Read more: Quick, Effective Public Health Measures
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    Quick, Effective Public Health Measures

    By Stephen Latham [cross-posted at his blog, A Blog on Bioethics] I’m freshly back from the annual meeting of the Public Health Law Research program, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson. At most academic meetings, I prefer schmoozing in the halls to listening to the talks. That’s part personal vice, and part stage-of-career: at this point, it matters more who…

  • Read more: Upcoming event: Seminar on food subsidies and health at Tufts
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    Upcoming event: Seminar on food subsidies and health at Tufts

    Next Wednesday, Professor Sean Cash of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts will deliver a seminar presentation titled, “Fat Taxes and Thin Subsidies: Can food price interventions improve health?” Professor Cash will discuss the efficacy and health impacts of food price interventions that increase the cost of undesirable foods and/or decrease…

  • Read more: A Myriad of Options in the Spirit of the Law
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    A Myriad of Options in the Spirit of the Law

    By Adriana Lee Benedict In a couple days, petitioners in AMP v. USPTO will be filing their brief on the merits following the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in late November.  For many, the Supreme Court’s ruling in this case will provide a long-awaited answer to the question of whether or not isolated DNA is…