Bioethics News.An impatient Vice President Biden threatened Wednesday to cut funding to research facilities that fail to report clinical-trial results quickly enough and took a swipe at drug companies that jack up the prices of cancer drugs.
#Bioethics News: America's largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006-2012 https://t.co/O8gNsGLk1m
#FollowUp - For more pieces on the ethics of #facialrecognition after our post yesterday, check out this @nytimes #OpinionPiece about the racial bias and history entwined with facial recognition technology: https://t.co/Jo0ZvLZxDO
#Bioethics News: Two young children will receive a novel drug to treat spinal muscular thanks to #UnitedHealthcares reversal of denials for gene therapy atrophy.https://t.co/L5UBTLu11m
#Bioethics News: Dozens of databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge, with many of the images then being shared around the world, in what has become a vast ecosystem fueling the spread of facial recognition technology. https://t.co/FPyv4bKlyC
#Bioethics News: Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma urged a judge Monday to find health-care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson culpable for the consequences of the state’s opioid epidemic and assess the company as much as $17.5 billion to help clean up the damage.
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