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June 16, 2016

Dear Professional Organizations…It’s Not Me, It’s You

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Dear Professional Organizations,

Being an active member of my profession is important for both my personal mission and my professional career.…

February 29, 2016

A Post-Oscars “Spotlight” on Neonatal Lupus for Rare Disease Day

by Amanda Zink, J.D., M.A. and Jill P. Buyon, M.D.

As national funding decreased in recent decades, medical research suffered. Progress toward uncovering beneficial preventative and therapeutic treatments slowed for thousands of devastating conditions, affecting the health, happiness, and life expectancy of millions of Americans.…

October 5, 2015

Your Biology is in My Technology

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

The PBS series Open Mind has been on television for nearly 60 years. The program “is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas.” The December 30 episode was an interview with Dr.…

August 31, 2015

Hashtag Advocacy or Slacktivism: How Should We Evaluate the Impact of Social Media Campaigns for Public Health?

by Macey L. Henderson, J.D.

It takes more than a TV news story or a Twitter hashtag campaign to save lives.…

August 26, 2015

The Price of Academic Freedom

by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.

Alice Dreger resigned from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine/Memorial Hospital this week. The slash is because last year the hospital and the medical school merged.…

April 29, 2014

Defending Bioethics in the Job Market

By Keisha Ray, PhD

I am a junior scholar who is currently on the job market, hoping to secure a faculty position as a bioethicist.…

September 23, 2010

Another Bioethics Program in the MA in Bioethics Game...

The another recent addition to the crowd of masters degrees in bioethics is the program at SUNY Stonybrook.

Based within their Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, this program is a MA in Biological Sciences with a track for medical humanities compassionate care and bioethics.…

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AJOB Primary Research: Volume 7 Issue 3 - Jul 2016

Improving third-year medical students' competency in clinical moral reasoning: Two interventions Paul J. Cummins, Katherine J. Mendis, Robert Fallar, Amanda Favia, Lily Frank, Carolyn Plunkett, Nada Gligorov & Rosamond Rhodes

News (17)

September 23, 2016 8:00 am

Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness (NY Times)

The woman on the other end of the phone spoke lightheartedly of spring and of her 81st birthday the previous week. “Who did you celebrate with, Beryl?” asked Alison, whose job was to offer a kind ear. “No one, I…” And with that, Beryl’s cheer turned to despair.

July 12, 2016 8:36 am

Women Doctors Are Paid $20,000 Less Than Male Doctors (Time)

In academic medicine, female full professors earn the same amount as male associate professors.

July 8, 2016 8:51 am

President Obama’s 1-million-person health study kicks off with five recruitment centers (Science)

President Barack Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study began to take shape this week with the announcement of four medical centers that will recruit volunteers starting this fall. A fifth center aims to sign up 350,000 participants by blasting the general public with ads coming soon to your web browser or mobile phone.

July 1, 2016 8:08 am

Biden threatens funding cuts for researchers who don’t report clinical-trial data (Washington Post)

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.

June 14, 2016 8:26 am

White House, private sector act to reduce organ transplant waiting list (Washington Post)

The White House and a group of universities, companies and nonprofits announced new steps Monday to reduce the wait time for an organ transplant, including a $160 million Pentagon program to develop ways to repair and replace cells and tissue.

June 13, 2016 8:09 am

In effort to understand continuing racial disparities, NIH to test for bias in study sections (Science)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, has decided to find out whether its fabled grantsmaking process discriminates against African-American scientists.

May 20, 2016 8:49 am

Nearly a third of women in academic medicine experience sexual harassment (Reuters)

For women in U.S. medical research, sexual harassment is less common than 20 years ago, but it was still experienced by 30 percent of those responding to a new survey, compared to just 4 percent of men, researchers say.

May 19, 2016 8:46 am

House GOP presses ahead with Zika measure (Washington Post)

House Republicans on Wednesday pushed through a $622 million bill to battle the Zika virus, setting up challenging negotiations with the Senate and the White House.

May 16, 2016 7:48 am

Obamacare Rule Bans Discrimination Against Transgender Patients (Time)

The Obama administration has finalized a new rule that bans discrimination against transgender people and all discrimination on the basis of sex within health programs that receive federal funding.

May 3, 2016 10:11 am

For Hospitals, Prestige Leads To Profits (Kaiser Health News)

When it comes to hospitals, which benefit most from high health care prices? It may sound counter-intuitive, but a group of not-for-profit hospitals appear to be among those doing the best business.

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