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Senior fellow Alicia Ely Yamin explains how mental health systems around the world fail people with psychosocial disabilities for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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“Full Code” Is a Fallacy: Rethinking What We Owe Our Patients
Somewhere along the way, medicine made a quiet but consequential mistake. We invented a term called Full Code.
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The “Food Wars” and the Courts, Part II
In a prior post, I discussed litigation (Martinez v. Kraft Heinz Company, et al.) against 11 manufacturers of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) for causing a 16-year-old to develop Type 2 Diabetes and Fatty Liver Disease.
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Promise vs. Product: The Challenges Shaping the Future of CRISPR-Enabled Medicine
CRISPR gene editing holds transformative potential for the amelioration and correction of genetic diseases. Its promise is real, but scientific promise alone does not produce a therapeutic industry.
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Hazards Ahead for FDA’s Drug Review Process
In June 2025 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher Program (CNPV), billing the initiative as “accelerated drug review for companies supporting U.S. national interests.”
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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.
