In a recent Q&A with PennLDI, Christina Roberto discusses her work developing front-of-package labels that are easy for consumers to understand & use ft. Laura Gibson & Alisa Stephens-Shields. tinyurl.com/24urvzhy

The Struggle to Put Health Concerns in Food Labels

The most effective labels are simple and colorful, and present pictures, says LDI Fellows

Black adults across the U.S. suffer from sleep problems following exposure to news about unarmed Black individuals killed by police during police encounters, according to research led by @atheendar.bsky.social@nytimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/h...

After Police Kill Unarmed Black People, Sleep Worsens — but Only for Black People

Black people in the U.S. were far more likely to report harmfully low sleep in the months after a killing compared with white people surveyed during that time.

Please spread the word! The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics is pleased to announce its 4th Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition. Current graduate students in any field are eligible, deadline is July 1. Full announcement here: aslme.org/4th-annual-a...

4th Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition

The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (ASLME) is pleased to announce its 4th Annual Health Law and Anti-Racism Graduate Student Writing Competition with the goal of encouraging students to...

A thought-provoking critique about Food is Medicine from @pennmehp.bsky.socialjamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“Food Is Medicine” Approach to Disease Prevention

This Viewpoint argues that although “food is medicine” programs may help some patients prevent diet-related diseases, changing food industry behavior and ensuri

Read @haraldschmidt.bsky.socialjme.bmj.com/content/49/1...#bioethics

Equity needs to be (even) more central under the WHO Pandemic Agreement

The World Health Organization (WHO) is currently in advanced stages of developing a ‘WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response’...

NON-profit hospitals — what’s in a name? Check out my @nytimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/o...@sangerkatz.bsky.social@dusetzinas.bsky.social@stevejoffe.bsky.social

Opinion | How to Put ‘Community’ Back in the Mission of Community Hospitals

Nonprofit hospitals are behaving in ways that seem to focus more on dollars than patients.

Congrats to @amolnavathe.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, effective July 2024!

"It seems to me a kind of magical thinking to assume that explaining the genetic causes of obesity will reduce stigma when that new explanation is lodged firmly within a broader project of treating, preventing, or curing fatness," writes our T32 fellow Cassie Houtz. #bioethicsbit.ly/3sDPzte

The Genetics of Obesity: A New Narrative or the Same Old Story?

It seems to me a kind of magical thinking to assume that explaining the genetic causes of obesity will reduce stigma when that new explanation is lodged firmly within a broader project of treating, pr...

Congratulations @stevejoffe.bsky.social! On Nov 2, he was honored to receive the Leonard M. Rosen Memorial Research Award, which is granted to “an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to childhood cancer policy and advocacy,” from Children’s Cancer Cause.

We're now accepting applications for our postdoctoral fellowship in ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics! We'd love to have you join our department! Read what our fellows have to say about their experience. Apply: apply.interfolio.com/130164#bioethics