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Interrogating the brain on trial: neuroscience, ethics and the law

August 26, 2022 Brain, brain imaging, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, ethics, Ethics Sumer Interns, law, Neuroscience, Philosophy

This is the first in an ongoing series by Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy summer interns, undergraduate/graduate students interested in emerging ethical issues.

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Inaccurate oxygen readings: the problem with pulse oximeters

August 19, 2022 Biases, FDA, inaccuracy, oxygen, policy, Pulse oximeters, racial and ethnic minority patients, regulatory requirements

Pulse oximeters are medical devices that measure how much oxygen is available in the body. This measurement, called the oxygen saturation, is a vital sign

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Forced to flee: Barriers to care in local refugee populations

August 12, 2022 Houston, inequities, marginalized population, migration crisis, Obstacles to care, Refugee, trauma

With an unrivaled 100 million individuals forcibly displaced from their homes in the past year, the world has witnessed a global refugee and migration crisis.

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The path forward: a more inclusive healthcare system

August 5, 2022 access to care, American College of Physicians, health policy, Healthcare, U.S. healthcare system, universal coverage

Editor’s note: This is the second post in a two-part series. Read the first part here. In January 2020, the American College of Physicians (ACP)

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Healthcare as a human right

July 29, 2022 Access, Health Insurance, Healthcare, Human Right, United States, Universal Healthcare

Editor’s note: This is the first post in a two-part series. Read the second part here. The right to healthcare has long been recognized in

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Stuck in the middle: Principles for establishing a pediatric intermediate care unit

July 8, 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics, children and infants, children’s hospital, CMS recognition, critical care, critically ill, pediatric critical care, pediatric intensive care unit, Pediatric intermediate care units, Texas Children's Hospital

In 2019, joint authors from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Critical Care (SOCC) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine published an

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Do you really want a clinical ethicist to be your medical power of attorney?

July 1, 2022 clinical ethics, Medical Decision-Making, medical power of attorney, surrogate, surrogate decision maker

This is the story of how I became my aunt’s medical power of attorney. It was almost 10 p.m. on a Tuesday, and my phone

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Dietary supplements, vitamin A, and regulation: a call to action

June 17, 2022 Accutane, Dietary supplements, FDA, regulations, supplements, Teratogenic risks, Vitamin A, Vitamin A supplements

Dietary supplements in the United States are considered foods by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and thus they are not subject to the same

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Celebrating bioethics and its role in our society

June 10, 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award Lecture, bioethics, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, ethics, Houston Methodist Hospital, Rice University

Across the globe, bioethicists are passionately researching answers to new challenges, asking difficult questions and uncovering new approaches that may one day alter how we

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Is Terminator inevitable?

May 27, 2022 artificial intelligence, autonomy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Morality, robotic technologies, Robots

If you think about ethics and robots, what comes to mind? “The Jetsons?” “2001: A Space Odyssey?” “Terminator?” I recently led a bioethics journal club