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