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Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It.


by Paula Span, quoting Emily Largent (Student Fellow Alumna)
New York Times

From the article: On Aug. 1, New Jersey will become the eighth state to allow doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who want to end their lives. On…

Canada’s chief science advisor is looking for some youthful insight


by Jean-Francois Venne, quoting Jean-Christoph Belisle Pipon (Visiting Scholar)
University Affairs

From the article: Canada’s chief science advisor, Mona Nemer, will soon be working with a youth council made up of young people aged 18 to 30 from a broad range…

What Good Does a Pacemaker Do in a Corpse?


By Avir Mitra, quoting Emily A. Largent (Student Fellow Alumna)
Vice

From the article: Every year about a quarter of a million people receive pacemakers in the United States. But in India, the number is much smaller, closer to 40,000. That&rsquo…

A Question of Prevention: I. Glenn Cohen on a procedure to avoid passing on genetic mutations, and the push to legalize it


Edward Mason, interviewing I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Harvard Law Bulletin

From the article: Calls are growing for the U.S. to lift a ban on mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT, a procedure developed to enable women who are at risk…

Digital Health Coalition Newsletter - July 2019


By Digital Health Coalition, quoting Sara Gerke (Research Fellow, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law)
Digital Health Coalition Newsletter

From the newsletter: Sara Gerke... …Research Fellow, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law, Harvard on why “Big Data” is the AI term on which marketers must have a…

You No Longer Own Your Face


by Sidney Fussell, quoting Michelle Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna)
The Atlantic

From the article: “It’s just not what [the IRB] was designed to do,” says Michelle Meyer, a bioethicist who chairs the IRB Leadership Committee at Geisinger,…

Medical crowdfunding supports the wealthy and endangers privacy: Here’s how to make it more ethical


by Jeremy Snyder, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Peter Chow White, and Valorie A. Crook
The Conversation

From the article: Medical crowdfunding is a fast-growing practice in which online platforms are used to raise money for health-related needs. GoFundMe.com, the largest platform for medical crowdfunding, has…

How judges added to the grim toll of opioids


by Benjamin Lesser et al., quoting Jennifer D. Oliva (Former Visiting Scholar)
Reuters

From the article: The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on greedy drug makers, feckless doctors and lax regulators. But there&rsquo…

Common Knowledge: Harvard Law School’s new online course Zero-L helps prime incoming students for success


Erick Trickey, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Harvard Law Bulletin

From the article: In late 2017, a few months after Manning took over as dean, he appointed a committee to develop Zero-L. Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03, who teaches Civil Procedure…

Our Aversion to A/B Testing on Humans Is Dangerous


by Scott Koenig, quoting Michelle Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna), et al
Nautilus

From the article: Meyer and her team found that in nearly every situation they tested, the decision to conduct an A/B test was deemed least appropriate by a considerable…