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Abortion pill access post-Roe

January 9, 2023

Ameet Sarpatwari PhD, JD, a Member of the Center, spoke to the Washington Post about access to abortion pills from pharmacies in the near future.

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Median prices for new US drugs in 2022 exceeded record highs of 2021

January 5, 2023

Center faculty member Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH was quoted in a Reuters article on the rising costs of novel prescription drugs in the United States.

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Veterinarians disagree over ethics of factory farming

January 4, 2023

Center faculty member and co-director of the Master of Science in Bioethics Capstone Program, Lisa Moses, VMD, was quoted in a Vox article on the ethics of factory farming.

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Ethics case commentary: the complexities of testing children for brain death in cases of parental refusal

January 3, 2023

Center Director of Clinical Ethics Jonathan Marron, MD, MPH published an open-access ethics case commentary in the American Journal of Bioethics.

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Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics receives Dana Foundation Planning Grant

December 13, 2022

The Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics has received a planning grant from the Dana Foundation to design a potential "Dana Center for Neuroscience & Society."

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Lack of exercise during the holiday season can exacerbate stress

December 2, 2022

Center Associate Director Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, spoke to the New York Times for an article on exercise tips to manage stress during the holiday season.

Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, on CBS News Philadelphia

Holiday season stress is common—but we can manage it

December 1, 2022

Center Associate Director Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, appeared on the New York Times and CBS News Philadelphia to discuss stress during the holiday season.

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Intentionally defying abortion bans puts physicians at risk

November 24, 2022

Center director of reproductive bioethics, Louise King MD, JD, was quoted in an NPR article about physicians providing abortions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

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The ethical complexities of mitochondrial replacement therapy

November 23, 2022

Center faculty member Vardit Ravitsky, PhD, has a new open-access paper in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 

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When a lifesaving technology becomes “a bridge to nowhere”

November 22, 2022

Center Director Robert D. Truog, MD, MA is quoted in an essay by Daniela Lamas for the New York Times.

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Center Founding Executive Director, Christine Mitchell, reflects on her career in bioethics

November 10, 2022

Christine Mitchell RN, MS, MTS, HEC-C spoke to HMS News about how the field of bioethics has changed over the course of her career, and where she sees the field going in the future.

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Pre-authorization hurdles a “hassle factor” for patients requiring hospitalization

October 26, 2022

MBE student Brenda Kubheka, MD wrote an opinion piece about the excessive red tape that makes hospital admission unnecessarily difficult for some of her patients, due to pre-authorization requirements.

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