Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PROMs often solicit very private information from patients, and if the data are not stored securely, hackers and other unauthorized personnel may have access to more sensitive details than would otherwise be present in electronic health records. Medical malpractice could occur for two reasons. Health Pol’y, Law, and Ethics 1 (2023).

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Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

On a panel together, we each presented on topics relating to product hopping, but from very different perspectives. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS. As such, product hopping is generally viewed as problematic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Present circumstances might make it challenging to draw a similar line for take-home exposure causing COVID-19. Boehl Chair of Law and Medicine and Director of the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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COVID-19 Bioethics Hospitals Public Health 190

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At present, researchers can keep these synthetic humanoid organisms alive for almost nine days; the mouse version can be kept alive for twelve days, half the full mice gestation period, which might translate to four and a half months in humans. So far, no country has adopted this rule. The original article can be found here.

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Bioethics Informed Consent Governance Licensing 298

HIT Consultant

JULY 12, 2022

Genome editing uses molecular tools to alter the DNA already present in cells rather than introducing new genetic material. When new techniques are developed, bioethics is always present to evaluate the procedure’s hazards and moral ramifications. Later research helped to advance gene therapy methods.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They present an opportunity for robust discussions from a diverse array of perspectives, breathing life into the notion of “rights-based approaches to public health emergencies.” Indeed they have already found their way in a resolution of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.

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Public Health World Health COVID-19 Bioethics 220

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2024

Baban At present, there is a population of patients who would physiologically benefit from transplantation but are rejected based on pre-determined non-medical criteria: the presence of psychotic disorders. An upcoming opportunity for reform provides a chance to rectify this injustice.

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Health Care Reform Bioethics Public Health 279

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 1, 2023

The most important skills cited by several studies and publications as being important for life sciences professionals include research ethics, scientific peer communication, bioethics, time management, research project management and scientific knowledge and methods outside of their present research area and awareness of industry trends.

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Bioethics COVID-19 Governance 92

Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2023

At present, only one regional air medical service is permitted to initiate blood transfusions through a special waiver. In short, the logistical issues have or can be addressed to allow for this proposal to proceed. The reluctance and resistance to the proposal is more about control than about clinical care.

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Hospitals Bioethics 261

Bill of Health

AUGUST 23, 2022

As to our present pandemic moment, it is difficult to claim that there are literally no legal or policy interventions for pandemic response and control that can be implemented; consistent majorities of people in the U.S. support mask mandates during surges, for example.

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Public Health COVID-19 Bioethics 363

Bill of Health

AUGUST 1, 2022

When the opportunity presents itself to take a stand, I hope you choose action, as we did. The fallout from the most recent Supreme Court ruling will be vast, and it will be destructive. We all know someone who has or will need an abortion — one in four women will in their lifetime.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2023

He Jiankui’s Controversial Comeback Fast forward to the present. As a result, Dr. He was sentenced to three years in prison and was fined three million Chinese yuan ($429,000). Since being released from prison in April 2022, Dr. He has been staging a comeback.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 29, 2022

Presenting an impairment or even a difference — even one that can be easily accommodated or that bears no relationship to performing on the job — still makes the person, unfortunately in the eyes of many, ‘disabled’ and less productive. On the other hand, this disclosure can induce unjustified assumptions and discrimination.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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Hospitals COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Governance 130

Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

For example, as Ben White suggests , “to understand human displacements, past and present, we need to consider animals too.” I propose that a different way of approaching this dilemma is to consider a plurality of perspectives. Particularly in the context of climate change , there is a need to see animal and human migration together.

Governance 260

Governance Bioethics Public Health 260

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In SBS, the examining physician is presented with a baby with horrific injuries and can find no other possible cause — reminiscent of the res ipsa case. [7] 7] Rejecting a diagnosis because a causal mechanism cannot be reliably proven, is, in fact, incongruent with medical practice. This does not negate the diagnosis. City of Chicago. [4]

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

In health care, outdated operating systems present some of the greatest risks: 15% of medical devices and 32% of medical imaging tools run on outdated operating systems. “This is because many medical devices remain in operation for a number of years and cannot be easily replaced for cost reasons,” Ordr explains in the report.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. than on white people.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

It’s one of the most prolific tracking tools on the internet—present on more than 30 percent of the most popular sites on the web, according to The Markup’s analysis.

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Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

Before the Supreme Court struck down the vaccinate-or-test rule, we presented 1500 US adults with different descriptions of the same requirement. Some commentators speculated that reframing the policy as a testing mandate would boost support. This study investigates how framing effects shape attitudes toward vaccination policies.

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Bioethics COVID-19 Public Health 144

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In exploring innovative forms of state intervention in public health, it is essential to analyze an array of national experiences that present successful precedents where the right to health has informed and facilitated meaningful policy reforms.

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Bioethics Public Health Governance Pharmaceutical Industry 326

Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

It is amid this backdrop that we are proud to present our latest digital symposium, Build Back Better? This premature and at times exclusive push to “normalcy” in the U.S. Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The growing push for the constitutional recognition of fetal personhood — the idea that a fertilized egg is a constitutionally-protected being independent from the pregnant person — presents further concerns for immigrants in the U.S. The prospect of fetal personhood raises questions about when U.S.

Governance 130

Governance Bioethics Public Health 130

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

TOTO’s CES 2021 presentation talked about a “new normal way of life,” with the so-called “wellness toilet” able to scan the body and record various health metrics (mental and physical) about the user.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Electronic Medical Records Hospitals 73

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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Bioethics Doctors COVID-19 Public Health 144

Bill of Health

MARCH 11, 2024

In the words of philosopher Peter Singer , “the present generation of wealthy people will have the opportunity to embed their advantages in the genes of their offspring.”

Governance 141

Governance Bioethics 141

Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. They state as a main goal in responding to pandemics is getting people back to schools and work as soon as possible. That said, they do take seriously the need for layers of protection at schools and workplaces.

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Public Health Governance COVID-19 Vaccine Nursing Homes 274

Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. And, crucially, the point of the rhetoric is to get people to come to believe all of that without anyone ever having to present an argument to that effect.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The main mask recommendation on the CDC website is, at present, a two-layer fabric mask whose protections are relatively weak. While other countries have promoted, provided, or required high-filtration masks for the general public, the U.S. has not (although, if you want to meet with Biden or Harris , you’ll have to wear an N95).

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Public Health FDA Governance COVID-19 Vaccine 339

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. By Martha Lincoln. No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” ­­By Nate Holdren. Capitalism kills because destructive behaviors are, to an important extent, compulsory in this kind of society.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

The post A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 4: Winter of Death (December 2021 – Present) appeared first on Bill of Health. And we can only expect more crises on a 4-degree-warmer planet.

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Lynne Marie Kohm (Regent University), The Intersectionality of Race and Class in Bioethics, J. Pol’y (2021): The intersectionality of race and class in bioethics presents an opportunity to address how legal racial inequality intersects with class and.

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