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Bioethics, Psychedelic Therapy Abuse, and the Risk of Ethics Washing

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Although Grossbard and Bourzat deny the allegations, these accounts were vetted by leading news organizations, withstood legal threats from Grossbard and Bourzat, and have been substantiated by a growing body of consistent and corroborated accounts by survivors.

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Protecting the Consumer at the Heart of DTC Precision Medicine

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To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data. The innovation-security tradeoff is a familiar trope in biotechnology, but the main character of the direct-to-consumer tissue-based service story is less so.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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Without adequate guidance for how to comply with human rights in the context of public health emergencies, the authors therefore noted that States commonly “exceeded permissible derogations from the ICCPR” and faced “little accountability for their actions whether on domestic or international levels.” Ahmed et al.

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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. A full video of the event is available below.

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Perspectives on Data Privacy for Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps

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These apps provide a window into some of the key issues in the world of digital health — including data privacy, data access, data ownership, bias, and the regulation of health technology. In particular, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) has reached its expiration date.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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Despite more than a century-long existence, for instance, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) International Health Regulations only began to incorporate references to human rights in their text as recently as their 2005 iteration and even then engaged with the subject matter in broad strokes.

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Book Review: ‘Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public’s Trust’ by Mikkael A. Sekeres

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Food and Drug Administration became the agency it is today and how it makes some of its toughest decisions regarding the regulation of potent drugs. On the other hand, the FDA also serves as a gatekeeper to drugs and can unduly limit drug accessibility by regulating too zealously. Sekeres tells a captivating story of how the U.S.