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Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

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To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. I’m concerned about that,” she said.

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

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Whether we are understood as characters, as therapy clients, or even as data, there’s something wonky in how disability is portrayed — something that doesn’t fully account for us or do anything to reckon with a history of disability that has marginalized and othered us, made our lives seem lesser or strange.

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The Council of Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Convention: Implications for Health and Patients

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The Convention protects privacy and data protection rights, setting high requirements for data protection, which is important for patients who often share intimate data with their doctor.

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An Intersectional Analysis of Proposed Fertility Leave in England and Wales

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” To be entitled to this time, an employee must, if requested, produce for their employer a certificate from a registered doctor or nurse stating that they are receiving fertility treatment and a document confirming the appointment. The broad provisions appear to account for different circumstances.

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Q&A with PFC Director of Global Health and Rights Project, Alicia Ely Yamin

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My approach to human rights advocacy, as well as my thinking about international human rights law and comparative law has certainly been shaped by living and working for so many years in Latin America and doing a doctorate in law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, where I have family. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D. 1991), M.P.H.

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The Beginning of a Bad TRIP – Alabama’s Embryonic Personhood Decision and Targeted Restrictions on IVF Provision

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However, the ends do not justify the means in this case; likening frozen embryos to children is not a legally sound mechanism to hold fertility clinics accountable for negligently storing embryos. TRIP laws stand to make IVF even further out of reach for those who already face significant barriers to care.