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Lacey Brennen, MD, MBE, recieves her master's hood at graduation.

That's the Spirit

by PHOEBE KNOX

Bleak Asylum Ruling

Center faculty member Wes Boyd recently co-authored this opinion piece about Jeff Session's decision to deny asylum in cases where victims have suffered "private violence."

J. Wes Boyd in New York Times on Jeff Sessions' Asylum Policy

To the Editor:

Re “Sessions Shrinks Paths to Asylum” (front page, June 12):

"Well Settled, Yet Still Unresolved"

On August 5, 1968, an ad hoc committee at Harvard Medical School published a landmark report that laid the groundwork for a new definition of death, based on neurological criteria.

LGBT Health Care Panel

Addressing LBGT Concerns in Health Care

In conjuctionion with Boston Pride week, the evening session of the Harvard Clinical Bioethics Course will explore the health care concerns and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people—whether they are care providers or patients.

Cross Cultural Medicine

by PHOEBE KNOX

The Secret of Balancing Medical Practice and Parenting? For Lousie King, Knitting

Clinician burnout can have serious, wide-ranging consequences, from reduced job performance and high turnover rates to—in the most extreme cases—medical error and clinician suicide.

Ethical implications of medical crowdfunding: The case of Charlie Gard

Patients are increasingly turning to medical crowdfunding as a way to cover their health care costs. In the case of Charlie Gard, an infant born with encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, crowdfunding was used to finance experimental nucleoside therapy.

Getting King's Words Right

These often-invoked words attributed to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. offer moral sustenance to many persons working toward health equity today.

Questioning the Rigor of Animal Data Underlying Clinical Trials

If you sign up to take part in a clinical trial, you can trust that scientists have solid evidence from animal studies that the test drug might work, right? After all, a study based on flimsy evidence would needlessly put your health at risk and potentially waste money.