'Such allegations of manipulating a transplant waiting list can undermine the public’s trust in the organ allocation system.' HC senior research scholar Karen Maschke talks to The Associated Press about a doctor who made patients ineligible for the #transplant system.
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Our new paper is online: “Pandemics, intellectual property and ‘our economy’: A worldview analysis of Canada’s role in compromising global access to COVID-19 vaccines” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New pub from our Dr. Majumder & collab Dr. Fasipe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea… illustrates need in sickle cell disease ( #SCD ) for a kind of translational #bioethics w/ deep understanding of lived experiences & clinical realities & a high degree of economic and #policy sophistication

We are so excited to welcome Emily Sanders to The Hastings Center. She's our new grants manager.

'A quiet biological revolution in warfare is underway. The genome is emerging as a new domain of conflict.' READ abt genetics arms race, by Y. Biberman-Ocakli, assoc poli-sci prof Skidmore College & J. D. Moreno, ethics prof Penn & HC fellow.
#bioethics
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'AI hallucinations, displacement of human creative work, misinformation, and privacy hazards look inconsequential when stacked up against human annihilation.' READ Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D., HC's CEO Vardit Ravitsky Caesar Atuire J-C Bélisle-Pipon Anita Ho, PhD, MPH (@[email protected]) in J. of Medical Ethics Forum
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Scientists around the world are testing artificial wombs. “I am absolutely pro that technology because I think it has great potential to save babies.” Listen to HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky discuss the #ethical & #legal ramifications of #artificialwombs on NPR
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OPEN until May 1: Submit your comments to National Academy of Medicine's AI Code of Conduct initiative. Follow the link to read the draft, then comment. Let your voice be heard!
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #bioethics #Ethics
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HC senior research scholar Josephine Johnston talking to John Zhong and Daisy Cheung at the Seminar on Medical Assisted Dying in New Zealand, held at the Hong Kong Children’s Hospital. CUHK Medicine
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“I don't want to experience dementia. I hope or want to die before it arrives in my life.' READ FREE this and other essays in our special report on dementia. By M. Buchbinder & HC senior research scholar N. Berlinger
#Dementia #Alzheimers #aging
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'Underlying this entire experience was my constant awareness that only 90 miles west of us, Palestinians in Gaza were experiencing a dire humanitarian crisis.' HC's PMRA Sana Baban writes of her recent trip to a Jordanian refugee camp w/sams_usa. #ethics thehastingscenter.org/in-the-shadows…

War, violence, and displacement continues to have devastating acute and chronic health outcomes for civilians. I’m immensely grateful to have written this piece for The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum on my recent trip to Jordan with SAMS.

Read now:
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'My concern is that pregnant people will be forced to allow fetuses to be taken out of their bodies and put into an artificial womb...basically a new way of taking away abortion rights.' HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky talks to Rob Stein on NPR #artificialwomb
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A room with a view - in DC for a day for MedStar Health’s Bennathan Lecture at the French Embassy, to discuss the future of #AI in Health on a panel, following a Keynote by Peter Lee, President of Microsoft Research. Should be fun!

'A growing chorus of tech leaders has warned that AI poses existential risk...This paper offers a critical appraisal of the rise of calamity thinking in...AI ethics literature.' By Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. HC's CEO Vardit Ravitsky Caesar Atuire J-C Bélisle-Pipon Anita Ho, PhD, MPH (@[email protected])
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“Advanced AI methods and systems present a new and important opportunity to achieve the vision of a learning health system,” says a new #NAMPerspectives . Read more— doi.org/10.31478/20240…

'While the field of bioethics transcends disciplinary siloes and embraces diversity of thought, the field remains divided by language and, too often, wealth.' So begins the editors' note for the 8 essays by Caribbean Basin bioethicists (Eng & Span).
FREE
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APRIL 19, 1pmET! Join HC CEO Vardit Ravitsky, host Dr. Insoo Hyun, & instructor Lauren Walsh in this interactive webinar as they wade through the thicket of the promises and perils of polygenic embryo screening.
Cosponsors: Museum of Science Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
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Our Bioethics Briefings contain overviews of key bioethics issues, such as abortion, organ transplantation, physician-assisted death, & stem cell research, & are grounded in scientific facts. They include experts to contact & resources. #bioethics #ethics
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Our scholars partnered with Caribbean Research Ethics Initiative in bioethics training which produced essays that reflect reciprocal, meaningful engagement with local bioethical issues. With HC scholars Carolyn P. Neuhaus Mercer Gary
Thanks to Fogarty at NIH.
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