Gone Fishing: Teaching Bioinformatics With Skate DNA
As computers have advanced over the past few decades, researchers have been able to work with larger and more complex datasets than ever before. The science of using computers to investigate biological data is called bioinformatics, and it’s helping scientists make important discoveries, such as finding versions of genes that affect a person’s risk for developing various types of cancer. Many scientists believe that almost all biologists will use bioinformatics to some degree in the future.
Bioinformatics software was used to create this representation of a biological network. Credit: Benjamin King, University of Ma...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Genes Bioinformatics Cool Creatures DNA Genomics Training Source Type: blogs
Assuring Essential Medical Supplies During a Pandemic: Using Federal Law to Measure Need, Stimulate Production, and Coordinate Distribution
Evan D. Anderson (University of Pennsylvania), Scott Burris (Temple University), Assuring Essential Medical Supplies During a Pandemic: Using Federal Law to Measure Need, Stimulate Production, and Coordinate Distribution, COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future. Boston:... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 14, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Genetics and COVID-19: How to Protect the Susceptible
Robert Field (Drexel University), Anthony W. Orlando (California State Polytechnic University), Arnold J. Rosoff (University of Pennsylvania), Genetics and COVID-19: How to Protect the Susceptible, 37(2) Trends in Genetics (2021): Along with the potential for breakthroughs in care and prevention,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 8, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Is Law Working? Where COVID-19 Legal Epidemiology Goes from Here
Evan Anderson (University of Pennsylvania), Scott Burris (Temple University), Is Law Working? Where COVID-19 Legal Epidemiology Goes from Here, COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future. Boston: Public Health Law Watch (2021): There was plenty of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 1, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
A Public Option for Employer Health Plans
Allison K. Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania), Howell E. Jackson (Harvard Law School), A Public Option for Employer Health Plans, SSRN: Following the 2020 presidential election, health care reform discussions have centered on two competing proposals: Medicare for All and an... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Before and After Hinckley: Legal Insanity in the United States
Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania), Before and After Hinckley: Legal Insanity in the United States, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 21-08: This chapter first considers the direction of the affirmative defense of legal insanity in... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 26, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Saints, Sinners, & the Spirituality of the SPAC Church | Politics, Policy, Power
By EMILY EVANS
Takeaway: Policy changes have overtaken many health care SPACs but that won’t stop a lot of telegenic advocates; something is sure to go wrong.
Politics. Something is sure to go wrong.
Over 400 SPACs have formed and about 100 business combinations announced. At least as far as health care goes, excluding biotech and pharma, the quality of the business combinations has thus far been uninspiring.
Deerfield’s CareMax/IMC Medical, Jaws’ Cano Health are focused on the very crowded Medicare Advantage market just as demographic realities require attention to shift toward younger people. Fa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Emily Evans SPAC Source Type: blogs
1896 – The Birth of Radiology
By SAURABH JHA and JEANNE ELKIN
Mr. Smith’s pneumonia was clinically shy. He didn’t have a fever. His white blood cells hadn’t increased. The only sign of an infection, other than his cough, was that his lung wasn’t as dark as it should be on the radiograph. The radiologist, taught to see, noticed that the normally crisp border between the heart and the lung was blurred like ink smudged on blotting paper. Something that had colonized the lungs was stopping the x-rays.
Hundred and twenty-five years ago, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a German physicist and the Rector at the University of Wurzburg, made an acci...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians RogueRad jeanne elkin Radiology Saurabh Jha Wilhelm Roentgen Source Type: blogs
Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-time Application to COVID-19
Victor Couture (University of California), Jonathan I. Dingel (University of Chicago), Allison Green (Princeton University), Jessie Handbury (University of Pennsylvania), Kevin Williams (Yale University), Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-time Application to COVID-19, U. Chic., Becker... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 11, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Internal and External Challenges to Culpability
This article was presented at “Guilty Minds: A Virtual Conference on Mens Rea and Criminal Justice Reform” at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 4, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population May Undermine Commitments to Mitigating Health Disparities
Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Parag A. Pathak (MIT), Michelle A. Williams (Harvard University), Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Rationing Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: Allocating to States Proportionate to Population... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What Prioritizing Worse-Off Minority Groups for COVID-19 Vaccines Means Quantitatively: Practical, Legal and Ethical Implications
Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown University), Harald Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania), Michelle A. Williams (Harvard University), M. Utku Ünver (Boston College), Parag A. Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College), What Prioritizing Worse-Off Minority Groups for COVID-19 Vaccines Means... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 24, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
This is Your Brain on Microwaves
By KIM BELLARD
Those of us of a certain age well remember the 1987 ad campaign from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. It equated frying an egg to what drugs did to our brains. The ad certainly impacted awareness, but it is less clear that it impacted drug use or, for that matter, that it actually was like what drugs did to our brains.
Well, it turns out that there is something that can scramble our brains, but it’s microwaves, and it appears that “malevolent actors” are using them to do just that. We’re now in the age of “directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy.”
There were reports coming o...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Is Executive Function The Universal Acid?
Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania), Is Executive Function The Universal Acid?, UPenn Public Research Paper No. 20-46: This essay responds to Hirstein, Sifferd and Fagan ’s book, Responsible Brains (MIT Press, 2018), which claims that executive function is the guiding mechanism... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 2, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What Do We Owe Each Other?: An Essay on Law and Society
Stephen Morse (University of Pennsylvania), What Do We Owe Each Other?: An Essay on Law and Society, UPenn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-43 Lawyer and psychologist Susan Vinocour has written a widely noticed, engrossing, immensely saddening, and... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 22, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
