Research LLM Fellowships at Center for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics
Here some funded LLM Positions in Health Law, Ethics and Policy starting September 2020 or January 2021. Professors Jennifer Chandler, Vanessa Gruben, Colleen Flood, and Marie-Eve Sylvestre are recruiting Centre Fellows who would like to complete their LLM with the Centre on topics associated with the Centre’s funded research programs.
Legal Definition of Death in an Age of Techno-Scientific Change – As we learn more about the physiology of the dying process (cessation of circulatory and brain function), and as resuscitation and life-sustaining technologies change, do legal definitions of death need to cha...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 24, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Thaddeus Mason Pope Receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Canada for Comparative End-of-Life Law and Policy Research
Here is a press release on my recent Fulbright award. Between January and May 2021, I will serve as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 27, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Research Integrity and Peer Review looks ahead to the World Conference on Research Integrity
On June 2-5, 2019, the research community will have an exciting opportunity to gather in Hong Kong at a global forum and address the challenges of promoting research integrity and the responsible conduct of research. The 6th edition of the World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) will be back in Asia for the first time since its 2010 meeting produced the groundbreaking Singapore Statement on Research Integrity ). This time, the focus will be “New Challenges for Research Integrity”.
What is the WCRI?
The World Conferences on Research Integrity are run by an independent foundation drawn from academia, funders, publi...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - February 18, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Susan V. Zimmerman Tags: Publishing Research Integrity and Peer Review Source Type: blogs
How does gender influence the academic publishing process?
How did you first become interested in gender diversity in the peer review process?
Dina: My interest began at the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in 2016 where all talk was about a comment published by The Lancet highlighting how the Global Symposia have been dominated by authors from the Northern hemisphere who often conduct research on low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs). This was seen to undermine efforts to build capacity and drown the voices of national individuals and institutions in LMICs who work often with severely constrained resources.
Interestingly, the analysis revealed that men and wo...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - May 4, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dr Dina Balabanova & Jamie Lundine Tags: Publishing BMC Health Services Research Gender bias peer review Research Integrity and Peer Review Source Type: blogs
Nanopore DNA Reader with Greater Accuracy Thanks to a Bit of Luck in The Laboratory
Scientific collaborators at University of Rochester and University of Ottawa have developed a new DNA reader based nanopores that can accurately identify the nucleotides passing through. It consists of a silicon nitride membrane, that has nano-sized pores within its body, and a biosensor membrane with only one nanopore. The two membranes are positioned 200 nanometers apart, and as a sample containing DNA is introduced, the DNA molecules are allowed to pass through the multi-pore membrane while most other things are not. The DNA molecules that pass through the initial membrane and that manage to get into the single-pore mem...
Source: Medgadget - December 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Genetics Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs
Canada Brings Automation to Healthcare: An Example For Governments to Follow
The Canadian government recognized the current challenges in their healthcare system alongside the rapid technological developments and their potential for changing medicine for good. Thus, a Senate Committee invited researchers, ethicists, entrepreneurs, and futurists like me to discuss the way forward. Recently, they published their findings containing actionable recommendations for the future. This is the way every responsible government should follow if they want to bring their healthcare system into the 21st century. I’m honored to have taken part in it.
Step One: Recognizing the state of play in healthcare
With...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design 3d printing artificial intelligence digital digital health healthcare system Innovation robotics technology Source Type: blogs
Children ’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and Macadamian Partner to Develop Voice-Enabled Solution for Pediatric Patients with Type 2 Diabetes (Interview)
Voice-enabled technologies are changing the landscape of digital health by offering a new channel to engage patients who are managing their chronic conditions. To leverage this opportunity, Macadamian, a software design and development firm, and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre (CHEO – OCTC), have partnered to develop My Diabetes Coach, a voice activated service. The initiative is part of CHEO – OCTC’s Health Innovation Program, where ideas from within the organization are matched with technical resources to turn innovative concepts into reality.
My Di...
Source: Medgadget - October 26, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Canada Moving to Legalize Marijuana
From today’s Washington Post:
Has this war on marijuana worked?
“No, it hasn’t,” said Clive Weighill, chief of the Saskatoon police force, president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and a veteran of the August raids.
Times, however, are beginning to change in Canada.
The new Liberal government has promised to act quickly to legalize marijuana for general use, which would make Canada the first Group of 20 country to end cannabis prohibition on a national level….
“Our system is badly, badly flawed,” said Eugene Oscapella, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and a longtime advocate for leg...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Tim Lynch Source Type: blogs
Call for Abstracts “Contemporary Issues in End-of-Life Care”
University of Ottawa - Desmarais BuildingCall for Abstracts for the session “Contemporary Issues in End-of-Life Care” at the Canadian Society for the Sociology of Health Fifth Biennial Conference
Conference date: May 5 – 6, 2016.
Conference location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract submission deadline: December 4, 2015.
Session Description: Contemporary end-of-life care is continually evolving since the emergence of palliative care in the 1960s. Various new actors, institutions, and discourses are entering the scene and remaking the field in unexpected ways. At the same time, scholars are paying i...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 17, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Can I Tap That?
Part 1 of a Series
How often do you come in contact with a patient whose chief complaint is knee pain? How often can you actually to do something about it? Collectively as emergency providers, we do not typically fix these types of injuries in the ED, and at times, it is not even certain if we actually diagnose knee pain properly. The truth of the matter is simply that we can diagnose it correctly, help our patients feel better, and give them some answers.
Frequently, traumatic knee pain can be diagnosed as a contusion, generalized strain, or sprain. Rest, ice, compression, elevation, and NSAIDS are often presc...
Source: The Procedural Pause - September 1, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Can I Tap That?
Part 1 of a Series
How often do you come in contact with a patient whose chief complaint is knee pain? How often can you actually to do something about it? Collectively as emergency providers, we do not typically fix these types of injuries in the ED, and at times, it is not even certain if we actually diagnose knee pain properly. The truth of the matter is simply that we can diagnose it correctly, help our patients feel better, and give them some answers.
Frequently, traumatic knee pain can be diagnosed as a contusion, generalized strain, or sprain. Rest, ice, compression, elevation, and NSAIDS are often prescribed...
Source: The Procedural Pause - September 1, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
