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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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As an important example, the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that, for instance, despite widespread availability of free vaccines, there are continued inequities in vaccine coverage, which perpetuates COVID-19–related health inequities. than on white people.

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Mainstreaming Reproductive Genetic Innovation

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In a recent article, Normalizing Reproductive Genetic Innovation , I offer four potential avenues for structuring a societal discourse in the U.S. on the topic. using administrative law: (1) adapting the U.K.’s s public consultation methods used in the leadup to the legalization of mitochondrial transfer to the U.S.’

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Bill of Health’s Top 10 Posts of 2022

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As 2022 draws to a close, we’re looking back at the top ten most-read articles published on Bill of Health this year. Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. By Chloe Reichel.

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The Journal of Law and the Biosciences’ Growing Impact

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this Article offers an evidence-based assessment of each of these assumptions. This article concludes by considering why the consequences and limitations of abortion bans should matter to supporters and opponents, alike. Second, they hope bans will send a message about abortion—specifically, that abortion is immoral.

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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

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In fact, among the risks in this year’s Top Ten list, eight were accelerated and highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic (the two un-related to the coronavirus crisis were methotrexate therapy and peripheral vascular harm). health care — especially expressed by health disparities.

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Learning from the ‘COVID War’

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By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report.

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A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. – Dec. 2021)

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After a number of media articles critical of the administration’s neglect of antigen testing appeared, the issue came to a head on December 7, 2021, when White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki mockingly and sarcastically replied to a question about testing with, “Should we just send one to every American?” In the U.S.,