by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. One of the changes that the Trump administration tried to make to the Affordable Care Act was to eliminate the requirementthat employer insurance plans cover the full cost of contraception. The new rules would have allowed businesses and nonprofits a religious and moral exemption from providing such coverage beginning this past Monday. Under the Obama administration, the Courts carved out exemptions for businesses that were religious in nature or that were privately run by a family of faith (see Little Sisters v.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. This Spring Quarter I had the honor of creating and teaching a new course at my university: HLTH 341 Death & Dying. Most readers of this blog in bioethics probably work in the medical school environment. When I taught in a medical school we provided lessons and experiences in giving bad news and hospice. We may have even taught briefly on the diagnostic tools to diagnose death.…
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#Bioethics News: Are #Medicare patients getting better care, or are they being kept out of hospitals to avoid readmission penalties? Are people getting hurt in the process? Research has produced conflicting results... https://t.co/wo5k5Lcaf3
#Bioethics News: Congress and the FDA need to tame the Wild West of drug pricing. When there’s an E. coli outbreak that causes illness and death, we rightly expect our regulatory bodies to step in. The outbreak of insulin greed is no different. https://t.co/20tRAJmZoN
#Bioethics News: An advisory panel for the #FDA split evenly on Thursday over whether the agency should approve the first oral medication to treat Type 1 diabetes https://t.co/fPBGB2KorT
#Bioethics News: Members of the #Sackler family, who own the company that makes #OxyContin, directed years of effort to mislead doctors and patients about the dangers of the powerful #opioid painkiller, previously undisclosed documents contend. https://t.co/oNuoJ8CBf2
#Bioethics News: Pound for pound, the deadliest arms of all time are not nuclear but biological. A single gallon of #anthrax could end life on Earth. Even so, the Trump administration has given scant attention to #NorthKorea pursuit of living weapons. https://t.co/Qumt9NsocG
