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Naloxone Accessibility After FDA Over-The_Counter Approval,
On March 29, 2023, seven years following its first approval, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Narcan, the naloxone hydrochloride nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose, as the first…
Malfunction, Malpractice
Who Is Liable When AI Injures a Patient? Medical errors happen; doctors are only human. And when doctors make mistakes, the law pertaining to who is liable is usually clear-cut.…
Preimplantation sex selection via in vitro fertilization: time for a reappraisal
In recent years, there has been rapid increase in the availability of elective sex selection via genetic testing of preimplantation embryoscreated through in vitro fertilization. We explore the standing of…
What rights do and should stakeholders have for medical data? A survey of patients, physicians, and hospital administrators,
We examine perceived and idea ownership of US patient medical data as governed by HIPPA in a survey of three stakeholder groups: patients, primary care physicians, and medical administrators. Current…
Enhancing the Ethics of User-Sourced Online Data Collection and Sharing
Social media and other internet platforms are making it even harder for researchers to investigate their effects on society. One way forward is user-sourced data collection of data to be…
Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Polygenic Risk Scores
Recently, polygenic risk scores (PGSs)—genome-wide measures of individuals’ genetic propensities—have come to consumers. PGSs are now directly available to individuals to assess type 2 diabetes risk,…
Copyright, Moral Rights, and the Social Self
Moral rights—noneconomic rights that enable authors to control how their copyrighted work is divulged, attributed, modified, and withdrawn—are grounded on the Investment Theory: when an author…
Open and Inclusive:: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage
The report offers decision support on fair processes for policy choices relating to health financing for universal health coverage (UHC). It opens by making the case for why fair processes…
Providing Responsible Health Care for Out-of-State Patients
For most physicians, a daily part of clinical practice is returning phone calls to their patients. Such calls are essential to the timely answering of patient questions, following up on…
The FDA Declares Levonorgestrel a Nonabortifacient—A 50-Year Saga Takes a Decisive Turn
Levonorgestrel (Plan B), also known as the morning-after pill, was the brainchild of Yuzpe and colleagues nearly 50 years ago. The drug has been available over the counter since 2006. Even as…