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In what should have been the best moment of her life, a New York woman looked down at her newborn twins for the first time

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Evaluating new efforts to revamp kidney care

July 26, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dialysis, Dr. Kevin Furman Erickson, kidney disease, Transplant

Chronic kidney disease affects more than 30 million adults in the United States. Each year, 100,000 patients transition to the most advanced stage of kidney

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Is biohacking ‘the practice of medicine?’: Regulators might think so

July 19, 2019 BIohacking, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Citizen Science, Rebecca Hsu, Regulation

In an unprecedented regulatory move, a famous biohacker is under investigation in California for allegedly practicing medicine without a license. The complaint against Josiah Zayner,

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Health apps and at-home genetic tests: Can a law fix the bugs?

July 12, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, genetic test, Mary Anderlik Majumder, Privacy

Have you ever used a gadget or app that tracks your steps, blood pressure or pregnancy? Have you ordered a direct-to-consumer genetic test? Or have

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Noninvasive prenatal testing: Knowledge is power, or is it?

June 28, 2019 BabySeq Project, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Genomic, Newborn, prenatal testing, Stacey Pereira

“How much prenatal genetic information do you actually want?” asked WIRED Magazine earlier this spring. The article explored the burgeoning market in noninvasive prenatal testing

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LGBTQ patients and pediatric healthcare policies

June 21, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, LGBTQ, pediatrics, Sophia Fantus

When compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, the health and mental health disparities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning* (LGBTQ) youth are striking.

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The case for expanding perinatal depression screening

June 14, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Michelle Ann Lopez, maternal health, post-partum depression, Women

Ten to 25% of women in the United States suffer from perinatal depression, commonly referred to as post-partum depression (PPD). Not only does PPD create

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Is there a right to die?

May 31, 2019 Assisted Dying, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Death, End of Life, Eric Mathison

How people think about death is undergoing a major transformation in the United States. In the past decade, there has been a significant rise in

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VA Whole Health: The paradigm shift we’ve been waiting for

May 24, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, VA, Veterans, Whole Health

“The job of medicine is not only to diagnose and treat disease,” said Tracy Gaudet, the executive director of the Veterans Health Administration, in her