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Leah Fowler

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Policywise 

How the medical community can encourage gun safety

June 1, 2018June 1, 2018Gun Safety, Gun Violence Awareness Day, health policy, Lea Kiefer, Leah Fowler

Ninety-six Americans are shot and killed every day. Five years ago, National Gun Violence Awareness Day began to honor one of those lives cut tragically

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Medical care: More than just the doctor and patient

May 16, 2018May 15, 2018Access, health policy, Insurance, Leah Fowler, Medical Care

How does medical care get delivered? If portrayals of doctor visits in the movies and on television tell us anything, it’s as simple as this:

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How immigration rhetoric impacts health

February 9, 2018February 8, 2018Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Stephanie Morain, health policy, Health Policy Research, Immigration, Leah Fowler

The administration outlined a four-pillar approach to immigration in the Jan. 30 State of the Union, underscoring a commitment to establish a path to citizenship

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Frankenstein at 200

January 31, 2018January 31, 2018Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Frankenstein, Health and Science Policy, Leah Fowler, Research Ethics

Mary Shelley’s most famous novel, Frankenstein, turns 200 this year. In honor of this momentous anniversary, people across the country are celebrating the novel’s enduring

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A year with PolicyWise

December 27, 2017December 22, 2017Blogging, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Leah Fowler, Year in Review

PolicyWise began as a quiet idea, conceptualized in the 2015 strategic planning phase of the Health Policy Program and actualized as a component of the

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Planning for the unknown: How to harness the power of predictive thinking

October 20, 2017October 17, 2017Anti-Aging Technologies, Imagined Future, Leah Fowler, Life Extension, Longevity, Radical Life Extension, Transhumanism

It’s fun to read articles about science fiction novels that predict the future with sometimes unsettling accuracy. We can look back and wonder how these

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Crowdfunding science: Promise and problems

June 30, 2017July 1, 2017Christi Guerrini, Citizen Science, Crowdfunding, Donations, Fundraising, Grants, Internet, Leah Fowler, Money, Research Funding

Crowdfunding is a popular way to raise money for various causes and projects by collecting small donations directly from the public using Internet platforms. As

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Social media’s potential impact on the future of medicine

July 29, 2016November 18, 2016Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Christian Schaaf, Healthcare, Houston, Leah Fowler, molecular and human genetics, Social Media, Technology, Tess Bigelow

The ability to open a browser and have the world wide web at our fingertips has interconnected and empowered us to an extent that we

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An outsider’s perspective on a medical data sharing conference

March 23, 2016October 7, 2016Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, data, ethics, Events, Houston, Leah Fowler, National Human Genome Research Institute, Research

As a recent hire of Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, I was allowed a unique opportunity to watch high-level

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Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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