Bill of Health
AUGUST 11, 2022
This article will consider the case study of Brazil as an example. An active bioethics and medical law community is needed to influence the interpretation of the law in Courts to set standards that complement the right to health.
Bill of Health
MARCH 9, 2022
The phenomenon of citing anecdotal evidence as if it is scientific evidence appears across training materials, research articles, and general discussions by stakeholders (e.g., This is not an acceptable level of evidence given the degree of patient vulnerability and the need to address serious and widespread records of harms.
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Bill of Health
MARCH 6, 2024
Canada’s MAID law has some safeguards to prevent patients from being coerced into MAID, such as requiring cognitive capacity to consent, voluntary informed consent, assessors and witnesses who are independent of each other and who have no conflicts of interest, and waiting periods between different stages of the process.
Bill of Health
OCTOBER 13, 2023
To protect against individuals or corporations utilizing these cells for profit, ála the Henrietta Lacks story, sophisticated informed consent, and licenses should surely be developed, along with directives on responsibility for maintenance, warehousing, and disposal., The original article can be found here.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
It is essential reading; the article points to the cruelty in how we situate advice and research around screen time for autistic people — and speaks to a much broader field of research that serves to always compare and situate autistic kids against typical peers, and never letting autistic kids be autistic and respected on their own terms.
Bill of Health
MARCH 8, 2023
As an article in The Atlantic points out, the risks of the experiment did not outweigh the potential benefits, the gene editing was poorly executed, the participants’ consent was questionable, and the experiment was kept hidden from Dr.
Bill of Health
DECEMBER 20, 2022
And in 2019, the Justice Department asserted that the FDA does not even have the authority to regulate such drugs since “ the FDCA’s regulatory framework for ‘drugs’ and ‘devices’ cannot sensibly be applied ” to articles having an intended use not traditionally regulated by FDA (i.e.,
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