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Johns Hopkins performs world's first 'total' penis transplant, on veteran wounded by IED blast

Johns Hopkins surgeons performed the most complex penis transplant ever in late March on a soldier who lost his genitals during a bomb blast in Afghanistan.

 

Making Sense of the Case of Jahi McMath

Clearly distinguishing between the living and the dead is an essential function in any society, necessary for determining when people may be buried, when their wills may be executed, when efforts to keep them alive may be terminated, and when they may donate their organs, among other issues.

Effy Vayena

Health Research with Big Data

To address the ethical challenges in big data health research we propose the concept of systemic oversight.

Receiving a health assessment can mean life or death for asylum seekers

By Phoebe Knox

Laura Specker Sullivan in India

Keeping Culture in Mind

by PHOEBE KNOX

Advance Care Planning for Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease

Advance care planning (ACP) may seem straightforward to some. However, for many people this is a challenging topic to discuss and a complex landscape to navigate.

Using Marijuana 2 Times a Month Cost This Doctor His License

If a physician has a substance use or mental health problem, it is in everyone’s interest — the physicians themselves, their patients and their families — for them to get treatment.

The Potential for Harm Is Real

The bar for clinical trials involving children, by design, is set higher than it is for adults. Before a drug can be given to children in a Phase 1 trial, it must have already been tested in adults and shown some signals about its safety and clinical promise.

White Opioids: Race and the War on Drugs that Wasn't

Sixth Annual MGH Public and Community Psychiatry Symposium
Wednesday, March 28
2:30pm - 5:00pm
Massachusetts General Hospital O’Keeffe Auditorium

Speaker:
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD

What Stephen Hawking taught a young Kashmiri boy about health policy

Although highly respected as a theoretical physicist for discovering the behavior of black holes and investigating the origin of the universe, Hawking leaves behind an