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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In its origins, Psymposia was the programming partner for the largest psychedelic conference of its time—MAPS’s Psychedelic Science 2017—where it curated a full schedule of speakers on an eponymous stage. Image: Psychedelic Science 2017 signage, courtesy of Brian Normand.

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AI’s Ability to Manipulate Decision Making Requires a Moratorium on Its Use in Obtaining Consent for Biomedical Research

Bill of Health

The federal government’s commitment to assuring that participants in human subject research provide fully informed consent dates back to the U.S In 2017, Congress acted again to update the Common Rule and strengthen the provisions related to consent. While the U.S. These warnings echo those of the U.S.

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

The AAMC requires medical school graduates to “demonstrate a commitment to ethical principles pertaining to provision or withholding of care, confidentiality, informed consent.” Correspondingly, most medical school ethics courses review issues related to consent, end-of-life care, and confidentiality.

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Regulating Medical Assistance in Dying: A Comparison of the U.S. and Canada

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For instance, the 2017 case A.B At the time, the law required a person’s natural death to be “reasonably foreseeable” for a person to be eligible for MAID. The law did not specify a length of time until death that constituted “reasonably foreseeable,” and courts rejected an interpretation based on lifespan.

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Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy

Health Populi

This is important because in 2017, one in four new drugs approved by the FDA were designed to treat a small population, falling. The team analyzed data-sharing guidelines across 230 policy documents published between 1996 and 2017. into the precision medicine category. Note that autonomy and privacy rank with the most mentions.

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Harms and Biases Associated with the Social Determinants of Health Technology Movement

Bill of Health

billion dollars of health system funds were invested into SDOH efforts from 2017 to 2019. Informed Consent and Refusal. Therefore, a proper informed consent and refusal process would involve naming all the ways days could be used throughout the intervention and allowing patients to opt in or out of the individual data use cases.

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R&D Mini-Me? New Legal Questions for Organoids

Bill of Health

Much has been made of recently discussed CAR-T cell therapies for cancer , which have been around since 2017, and in-human sickle cell treatment Casgevy. Cell-mediated and tissue-based technologies hold promise in inducing self-repair from within the body, and they’re making their way to market in traditional medicine.

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