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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Bill of Health

During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months. As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. By Sharona Hoffman.

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In 2013, for instance, I published an essay titled “ A Declaration of Psychedelic Studies ,” which began with these words: “The scientific research community is in the midst of a ‘psychedelic renaissance,’ but sanctioned platforms for mainstream discussion are heavily weighted in the direction of objective scientific research.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

Bill of Health

The EU announced a special derogation in Regulation 2013/576, allowing the import of Ukrainian refugee pets without meeting standard requirements. Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

I noted the Yin-and-Yang-and the Blur of this health data ecosystem in 2013 when I attended CES, HIMSS and South-by-Southwest in a matter of weeks, kicking tires on digital health developments at all three events. Back to the Ordr report, noting the rise of also the Internet of Stranger Things, abounding.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

But in 2013, health equity wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. He envisioned ConsejoSano as a telemedicine company that could address this challenge and he raised angel funding, creating a minimum viable product. What he didn’t realize at the time was that “we were a company trying to solve health disparities.”.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution. ” Ella lived in Lewisham in southeast London.