Malpractice by the Autonomous AI Physician
Mindy Duffourc (New York University), Malpractice by the Autonomous AI Physician, U. Ill. J.L. Tech.& Pol ’y (Forthcoming): AI is currently capable of making autonomous medical decisions, like diagnosis and prognosis, without the input of humans. Liability for this “practice... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 18, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Walter E. Grinder, 1938 –2022
John Hagel IIIWalter Grinder passed away in December 2022 after fighting many illnesses. He lived a long and productive life, driven by his desire to help those around him and to drive change in the broader world.Born in the Pittsburgh area in 1938, Walter graduated from Grove City College, where he had the good fortune to study under Hans Sennholz. He was then drawn to the New York City area, where he had an opportunity to study with Ludwig von Mises, Ludwig Lachmann, and Israel Kirzner at New York University and taught economics at Rutgers University –Newark. Walter and his wife, Mary Jane, lived in New Jersey, wh...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Hagel III Source Type: blogs
After Dobbs, Are Rights for Zygotes, Embryos, and Fetuses Next?
Cynthia Soohoo (City University of New York), After Dobbs, Are Rights for Zygotes, Embryos, and Fetuses Next?, City U.N. Y. L. Rev. Blog (2022): Justice Alito ’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey marks a watershed shift... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 3, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Intranational Inequality and COVID-19: Studies of Brazil, the United States, and India at a Snapshot in Time
Daniel Rosenberg (New York University), Intranational Inequality and COVID-19: Studies of Brazil, the United States, and India at a Snapshot in Time (2022): This annex explores how internal inequalities have affected COVID-19 outcomes across the three countries most affected by... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 7, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
About That Cancer Moonshot
BY KIM BELLARD
Joe Biden hates cancer. He led the Cancer Moonshot in the Obama Administration, and, as President, he reignited it, vowing to cut death rates in half over the next 25 years. Last month, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s historic call for an actual moonshot, he vowed “to end cancer as we know it. And even cure cancers once and for all.”
But, as several recent studies show, cancer is still surprising us.
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Our body has its own defenses against cancer, such as T-cells, and great strides have been made in cancer therapies, including ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Research Cancer Cancer Progression Fungi John F. Kennedy Moonshot Source Type: blogs
About that Cancer Moonshot
By KIM BELLARD
Joe Biden hates cancer. He led the Cancer Moonshot in the Obama Administration, and, as President, he reignited it, vowing to cut death rates in half over the next 25 years. Last month, on the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s historic call for an actual moonshot, he vowed “to end cancer as we know it. And even cure cancers once and for all.”
But, as several recent studies show, cancer is still surprising us.
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Our body has its own defenses against cancer, such as T-cells, and great strides have been made in cancer therapies, includi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Public Health Biden Cancer Cancer Moonshot Source Type: blogs
Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - October 04, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and any related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon, a...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Online Public Health Misinformation, and How to Tame It
Ira Rubinstein (New York University), Tomer Kenneth (New York University), Online Public Health Misinformation, and How to Tame It, Harvard J. Legislation, (Forthcoming): The COVID-19 pandemic was shaped by a corollary infodemic: an abundance of public health misinformation (PHM), primarily... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - September 30, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Wearable Tracks Mental States
Researchers at New York University have created a wearable system that can measure electrodermal activity, a property of the skin that is influenced by mental states, such as stress or excitement. The system is called Multimodal Intelligent Noninvasive brain state Decoder for Wearable AdapTive Closed-loop arcHitectures (MINDWATCH) and it can assess electrodermal activity by measuring skin conductance. An algorithm developed by the researchers models the activity of sweat glands in the skin as a way to assess changes in electrodermal activity and then infers what this means for a wearer’s mental state. The technology has ...
Source: Medgadget - August 19, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Psychiatry Telemedicine Source Type: blogs
A Response to Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Peggy Cooper Davis (New York University), A Response to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Harv. L. Rev. Blog (2022): Professor Davis responds to Justice Coney Barret who brought up arguments against the Mississippi ban to so-called Safe Haven laws during the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 19, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: Is POTS a “ Functional Psychogenic Disorder ” ? Yes, According to NYU Research Team
By David Tuller, DrPH Research into conditions categorized as “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS) or “functional” disorders seems rife with studies that eagerly interpret associations and correlations as causal relationships. Not surprisingly, these proposed causal relationships tend to flow in the direction required by the investigators’ hypotheses, not in the direction that would undermine their arguments. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized causal New York University POTS Putrino Source Type: blogs
Hunting Disease-Causing Genetic Variants
Dr. Miriam Meisler. Credit: University of Michigan Medical School.
“In my lab, we’ve been gene hunters—starting with visible phenotypes, or characteristics, and searching for the responsible genes,” says Miriam Meisler, Ph.D., the Myron Levine Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. During her career, Dr. Meisler has identified the functions of multiple genes and has shown how genetic variants, or mutations, can impact human health.
Becoming a Scientist
Dr. Meisler had a strong interest in science as a child, which she credits to “growing up at the tim...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 29, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Genes Injury and Illness Diseases DNA Profiles Research Organisms Scientific Process Source Type: blogs
Regulatory and Medical Aspects of DTC Genetic Testing
Catherine M. Sharkey (New York University), Xiaohan Wu (University of California), Michael F. Walsh (affiliation not provided to SSRN), Kenneth Offit (affiliation not provided to SSRN), Regulatory and Medical Aspects of DTC Genetic Testing in Consumer Genetic Technologies: Ethical and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 17, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Reproductive Justice and Transformative Constitutionalism
Cynthia Soohoo (City University of New York), Reproductive Justice and Transformative Constitutionalism, SSRN (2021): Since the founding of the United States, women1 have fought for control over their bodies and the ability to make reproductive and parenting choices, free from... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - May 26, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
From MARC Student to MacArthur Fellow
Dr. Víctor J. Torres. Credit: Keenan Lacey, Ph.D.
“I study the dance between a bacterium and its host. If we can decode the secrets of that dance—how the pathogen causes disease, and how the host fights back—we might be able to take advantage of vulnerabilities to improve our ability to combat infections,” says Víctor J. Torres, Ph.D., the C. V. Starr Professor of Microbiology at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine in New York City.
Discovering and Pursuing a Passion for Science
Growing up, Dr. Torres never would have imagined his highly successful scientific career, especially sinc...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 25, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Injury and Illness Bacteria Infectious Diseases Profiles Source Type: blogs
