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Medical tourism: How far would you go for affordable healthcare?


BBC News
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From the video: Would you travel to Mexico or Canada for cheaper health care? Many Americans are crossing the border for affordable prescription drugs and medical procedures. This week on …

Join the Petrie-Flom Center Team!


Petrie-Flom Center

Are you interested in health law policy and bioethics? And excited about communicating the latest scholarship to a wide audience and supporting the next generation of health law scholars and…

No one can be truly anonymous ever again thanks to genetic sequencing


Chelsea Whyte, covering the Petrie-Flom Center's 2019 Annual Conference
New Scientist

This article is behind a paywall. Harvard affiliates can access the full text via Hollis. A battle between billionaires over the control of country club tennis courts six years ago…

Letter to the editor: The antibiotic industry is broken


Jonathan Darrow (Student Fellow alumnus) and Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar)
The Economist

From the Letter: It is right to direct attention to the serious problem of antimicrobial resistance, but it is wrong to suggest that an unending supply of antimicrobial agents are…

A shocking share of the public thinks randomized trials are immoral


by Kelsey Piper, featuring work by Michelle Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna), et al
Vox

From the article: Randomized trials are one of the best tools scientists have for learning about the effects of new policies. There’s just one problem — the public…

U.S. anti-abortion activists once ‘chipped away’ at Roe vs. Wade: Now They've Picked Up a Sledgehammer


Matt Kwong, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
CBC News

From the article: The anti-abortion movement is hitting an aggressive new stride in the United States. Whether it breaks into a sprint toward the Supreme Court is worrying reproductive rights…

People Have A Hard-To-Explain Bias Against Experimental Testing of Policies And Interventions, Prefe


by Jesse Singal, featuring work by Michelle Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna), et al
The British Psychological Society Research Digest

From the article: To anyone who believes in evidence-based decision making, medicine and policy, randomised tests make sense. But as a team led by Michelle N. Meyer at the Center…

The Second Reproductive Revolution: Glenn Cohen delivers chair lecture


Harvard Law Today

From the article: Technology is changing reproduction, says Professor I. Glenn Cohen ’03, one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law. In…

Tackling high Rx prices


Anna Burgess, featuring Jonathan Darrow (Student Fellow Alumnus)
Harvard Gazette

From the article: A new course launched this year on the HarvardX online platform, “The FDA and Prescription Drugs: Current Controversies in Context,” provides a free opportunity to…

Everything you need to know about the abortion ban news


Marisa Iati and Deanna Paul, quoting Katherine Kraschel (Student Fellow Alumna)
The Washington Post

From the article: "Can a woman who has an abortion be punished? The laws in Alabama and Missouri specifically exempt women from being criminally liable, said Katherine Kraschel, the…