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From The Harvard Gazette: AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it?
Medical ethicist details need to balance thoughtful limits while avoiding unnecessary hurdles as industry groups issue guidelines.
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Hamm v. Smith: The Limits of Legal Certainty when Science Evolves
Can states keep IQ testing people sentenced to death until they get the “right” score for execution? What is really at the heart of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on executing people who have an intellectual disability?
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Petrie-Flom Intern’s Weekly Round-Up: 10/25-11/1
By Fatima Mirza Recent documents released by Congress have revealed that only six people successfully enrolled in the federal government’s new health care program via the website during the site’s first day. The memoranda indicate a slow start to health plan enrollment. According to findings released on Wednesday by the FDA, as many as 12%…
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South Africa’s Pragmatic Turn: Pseudonymized Data and the Future of Health Research
A recent South African court judgment on pseudonymized school examination results has quietly opened a new and unexpected front in global debates about data protection and health research.
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Why Tattoo Artists Don’t Need to Be Doctors: A History of Safety Regulations in Tattooing
In the United States, we typically don’t associate tattooing with medicine — these practices appear more intertwined in other countries.
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
