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Where is Public Health in Precision Medicine Initiative
An excellent critical review of the new initiative to improve American’s health with a strong focus on precision medicine. Though Bayer and Galea are critical of the gene centric approach as he should be, the Precision Medicine initiative does plan…
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Adding Health R &D to the Sustainable Development Goals
The Council on Health Research for Development, Foundation for Innovative Diagnostics, Global Health Technologies Coalition, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Medicines for Malaria Venture, PATH, and TB Alliance today released a new report, authored by Policy Cures, Measuring global health R&D…
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Lab Scapes Art Science Opening this Week through Dec
LABSCAPES: Views Through The Microscope Where Art Meets Science Images from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology On View September 8-December 16, 2015 The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is among the world’s leading science and technology universities. Researchers at the Technion…
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Informed Consent Play
Recently the Common Rule, the guidelines by which any federally funded research using human research subjects, was subjected to critical analysis and revamped for the first time in over 10 years. The public comment period is open for 90 days…
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Extranumerary Embryos: Adoption, Donation, Disposal, and Research
With the growing interest in using Assisted Reproductive Technologies, many fertility centers are grappling with the excess embryos created through IVF. Some who have participated in IVF and had children decide to donate their embryos to those in need or…
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