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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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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Yet Dmitry Karshtedt held otherwise at the ASLME Health Law Professor’s Conference in Atlanta, GA in 2017. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS. As such, product hopping is generally viewed as problematic. My talk was titled “Legal Approaches to Ensuring Timely Generic Drug Availability.”

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Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

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One study found that an ethics course led recipients to engage in more thorough — but not necessarily better — reasoning, while another found that evaluators disagreed so often that it was nearly impossible to achieve consensus about students’ performances.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

By 2022, CTA projects that connected exercise equipment will reach sales of 2.5 million units with revenues of $4.5 billion.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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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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Beyond Vulnerability: Disability, Epistemic Agency, and Climate Action

Bill of Health

As argued by feminist scholar Sara Ahmed (2017: 237) , “ when a whole world is organised to promote your survival, from health to education, to the walls designed to keep your residence safe, to the paths that ease your travel, you do not have become so inventive to survive. ”