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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

Sarah Krouse and Anne Steele, the WSJ journalists, tag-team doing a great job quantifying the women’s fiscal force, quoting Blair Kohan, an agent with UTA who represents Greta Gerwig, the Barbie movie’s director, saying, “Women have always been a deeply underestimated economic force.”

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

HIT Consultant

These include aspects of your environment and behavior that are within your control, and others that are fixed, such as your genetics. It is now possible to construct a polygenic risk score (PRS) to identify how genetic variation across the genome affects your chances of developing breast cancer.

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The Beginning of a Bad TRIP – Alabama’s Embryonic Personhood Decision and Targeted Restrictions on IVF Provision

Bill of Health

The Alabama Court invites taking the analysis a step even further to ascribe personhood to frozen embryos. Following the hypothetical above, as the number of cycles required to become pregnant skyrockets from one or two to twelve, the price tag also goes up from $30,000 to $180,000 or $360,000.

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