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Can Doctors Objectively Quantify and Measure Pain?

HIT Consultant

Doctors have been using questionnaires and subjective responses including, the answer to the popular question, ‘What is your pain on a scale of 0 to 10?’ Inside the Clinical Study: What doctors observed. Unfortunately, each person’s pain tolerance and perception are different. Frank Fornari, Ph.D.,

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Roundup: Victoria, WA launch initiatives to support local digital health innovation and more briefs

Healthcare It News

It is funded through the state's Australian Medtech Manufacturing Centre and Biotechnology Fund and is being delivered by digital health accelerator ANDHealth. Ambulance Victoria onboards My Emergency Doctor to its Secondary Triage service. Programme to support clinical entrepreneurs launched in WA.

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A New Theory for Gene Ownership

Bill Of Health

After conducting a biopsy on her tumor, her doctors learned that her cancer cells reproduced uniquely effectively. Without her knowledge or consent, her doctors derived from the cells the HeLa cell line — the world’s first immortal human cell line, worth billions and a driver of the biotechnology revolution.

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Graduate Students’ Curricula Should Include Intellectual Property

Bill Of Health

Doctoral students in science and engineering focus during their thesis work on the process of discovering novel therapeutics, molecules, or platforms with the end goal of publishing these findings in journals. Why do we need additional training in intellectual property?

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

Bill Of Health

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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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2021-2022 Student Fellows

Bill Of Health

These six students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from across Harvard. (Clockwise from top left: Matt Bauer, Jack Becker, Bailey Kennedy, Cathy Zhang, Leah Pierson, Kaitlynn Milvert). We are so excited to welcome a new group of Student Fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center family.

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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

Bill Of Health

Dr. Devenot is also an affiliated researcher with Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Neşe Devenot, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in the University Writing Program at the Johns Hopkins University.