Bioethics News.Congress and the Food and Drug Administration 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.
#Bioethics News: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sent a letter to Catalyst Pharmaceuticals last Monday asking it to justify its decision to charge $375,000 annually for a medication that for years has been available to patients for free. Read more here - https://t.co/hius07VGrP
#Bioethics News: The average person would spend 76 working days reading all of the digital privacy policies they agree to in the span of a year... If no one reads the terms and conditions, how can they continue to be the legal backbone of the internet? https://t.co/E2dEPbrmBx
#Bioethics News: A decision by #FamilyTreeDNA, a prominent consumer DNA-testing company, to share data with federal law enforcement means investigators have access to genetic information linked to hundreds of millions of people https://t.co/ohnSsWcbdL
#Bioethics News: “FDA-approved” does not mean “clinically useful.” #23andMe relies on simpler technology than tests at your doctor’s office. As a result, the company’s tests can't tell you much about your actual risk of developing the diseases in question https://t.co/u0zn6d9nwq
#Bioethics News: Chinese Bioethicists Respond to the Case of He Jiankui - the scientist who created the world’s first gene-edited babies. See more at @hastingscenter here - https://t.co/xv8xDQ3rQK
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