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Physician Free Speech and the Doctor-Patient Relationship Post-Dobbs

Bill of Health

In 2019, under the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a Final Rule which, “impose[d] a gag on the medical profession that would have practitioners in the Title X program direct pregnant women toward continuing a pregnancy to term— regardless of what a patient actually wants (the ‘Gag Requirement’).”

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill of Health

In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication.

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

Bill of Health

SDOH interventions typically involve screening patients within a clinical setting using trusted health care providers (nurses, doctors, community health workers, case managers, social workers, etc.) billion dollars of health system funds were invested into SDOH efforts from 2017 to 2019. million in 2019 to $75.7 million in 2021.

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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

Bill of Health

Death” by some — has made it his mission to “ demedicalize death ” by removing doctors from the process of assisted suicide and bringing suicide devices directly into the hands of individuals seeking to end their own lives. Could the United States be next? Dr. Philip Nitschke — nicknamed “Dr. ending human life).

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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

Bill of Health

In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.

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Health Care Is Front and Center as DeSantis and Newsom Go Mano a Mano

Kaiser Health News

He also approved $60 million to help uninsured patients and people from out of state pay for abortions in California, and signed reproductive health care laws, including one protecting doctors who mail abortion pills to other states. California California’s drug overdose rate was 26.6 per 100,000 people in 2021.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – Spring

SQA

For Investigator Sites, the subject areas are Organizational Aspects, Informed Consent of Trial Participants, Review of Trial Participant Data, and Management of Investigational Medicinal Product(s). Patients currently taking the products should consult with their doctor or healthcare provider about alternative treatment options.

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