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New Center For Ethics In Health Care: Aiming To Make A Difference Through Systems Change
Four Ways To Address The Ethical Tensions Around Expedited Approval Of New Prescription Drugs
Planned Parenthood And Fetal Tissue Sale: Manufactured Controversy And The Real Ethical Debate
New Narrative Matters: A Failing Heart And The Downside Of Life-Prolonging Technology
Applying Comparative Effectiveness Research To Individuals: Problems And Approaches
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New Center For Ethics In Health Care: Aiming To Make A Difference Through Systems Change
Historically, the field of bioethics has focused much attention on ethical issues raised by the latest advances in medical science. For example, is it acceptable to use genetic engineering to create “ designer babies ”? Should employers be allowed to...
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Four Ways To Address The Ethical Tensions Around Expedited Approval Of New Prescription Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires a new drug’s manufacturer to present affirmative evidence of its efficacy and safety before it can be marketed. Because testing new drugs requires a delay between identification of an important, novel prescription...
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Planned Parenthood And Fetal Tissue Sale: Manufactured Controversy And The Real Ethical Debate
Editor’s note: This post is part of a Health Affairs Blog Symposium on Health Law stemming from 4th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review conference hosted by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School...
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New Narrative Matters: A Failing Heart And The Downside Of Life-Prolonging Technology
In Health Affairs’ August Narrative Matters essay, for a man with end-stage heart failure, a left ventricular assist device prolongs life but brings dire complications. Kristin Kostick and Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby’s article is freely available...
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Applying Comparative Effectiveness Research To Individuals: Problems And Approaches
A Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) study shows that surgery is better than medical treatment for a particular cardiac condition. My patient is 78 years old and has complicated diabetes. – does the study apply? Another patient 48 years old and...
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Tue, Oct 10 2013 7:36 AM
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Seven Ways For Health Services Research To Lead Health System Change
With ACA implementation now at hand -- and with it, the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) -- health services research (HSR) has an especially important role to play. As ACOs take steps that will substantially change health care delivery...
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Bringing Patients Into Health System Change
Editor's note: For more on the attitudes of Americans toward medical care and empowering patients to be active participants in their own care, see the February issue of Health Affairs , " New Era Of Patient Engagement ." The attention now...
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Health Wonk Review: Memorial Day Edition
If you’re traveling over the long weekend, you’ll want to take along some reading material. While some might reach for a good novel by John Grisham or Dan Brown, the health policy blogs in this edition of the Health Wonk Review tackle equally...
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