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Emily Largent, Jason Karlawish, & @annawexler.bsky.socialbmcdigitalhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Widespread adoption of digital health tools has the potential to improve health and health care for individuals and their communities, but realizing this potential requires anticipating and addressing...
Lots of debate re IAB's 2024 World Congress location (Qatar). Important. But the debate about global bioethics equity is broader: All need to actively engage in the next phase. Not engaging isn't neutral. It's being complicit in sustaining inequitable status quo jme.bmj.com/content/50/9...
Earlier this year, the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) hosted the biennial World Congress of Bioethics (WCB) in Doha, Qatar. Understandably, controversy surrounded the decision to hold th...
"Rather than another empty, feel-good bill, both presidential candidates should commit to improving the options available to dying patients, avoiding false promises, and emphasizing equity," write @hollylynchez.bsky.socialwww.statnews.com/2024/08/02/t...
Trump often invokes the Right to Try Act. Who wouldn't want to let people who are dying and desperate try something that might help? But the appealing name belies the law's critical shortcomings.
The development has inspired new interest and predictions about the device. @annawexler.bsky.socialwww.nature.com/articles/d41...
Device allowing the user to control a computer cursor using their thoughts has been adjusted in a bid to prevent glitches with the first implant. Device allowing the user to control a computer cursor ...
1/ Pleased to share a new Open Access paper in Clinical Trials, led by Emily Largent, on the value of community consultation in clinical trials that request waivers of the requirement for informed consent (threadlet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There is growing interest in using embedded research methods, particularly pragmatic clinical trials, to address well-known evidentiary shortcomings afflicting ...
Congratulations to Dr. Harsha Thirumurthy on his appointment to Division Chief of Health Policy effective July 1! Read the full announcement here: medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/events/in-th...
