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Petrie-Flom Welcomes 2023-2024 Student Fellows

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These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. At the law school, Adithi is interested in examining how emerging biotechnologies in regenerative medicine intersect with patient privacy and other ownership rights.

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Protecting the Consumer at the Heart of DTC Precision Medicine

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The HIPAA Problem The privatization of next-generation medical technologies, especially in regenerative and precision medicine, further muddies the data-protection waters. 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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AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

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The emergence of digital platforms and related technologies are transforming healthcare and creating new opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders in the medical space.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

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While demonstrating the artificial distinction between those concepts, the comparison highlighted Israeli regulation as presenting a clear and wide spectrum of clinical diagnostic criteria as well as a relatively generous funding scheme for medically-indicated egg freezing. The Israeli situation is a unique example of this overall trend.

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Access-to-Medicines Activists Demand Health Justice During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Activists anticipated the rise of vaccine, therapeutic, and testing nationalism — with rich countries securing preferential access to COVID-19 medical technologies and preventing export to other countries even before they had been approved — and the press soon followed.