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Marching Toward Gambling Madness (Pt. 1)
Addiction
Marching Toward Gambling Madness (Pt. 1)
It’s time to fill your bracket and brush up on your ball-knowledge: March Madness is here. The iconic college basketball tournament has been a staple of the sports calendar for nearly a century, but the stakes of this year’s tournament are higher than ever before.
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March 20,…
Hims? Hers? It’s Novo Nordisk’s Semaglutide Market Now
Government Regulation
Hims? Hers? It’s Novo Nordisk’s Semaglutide Market Now
Between Feb. 19-26, shares for the telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, Inc. plummeted. The reason for the sudden drop in its stock price? An FDA announcement that semaglutide injection products, the GLP-1 medication in the blockbuster drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, are no longer in…
When Clinical Trials Meet Patents: Finding Balance in Law
Artificial Intelligence
When Clinical Trials Meet Patents: Finding Balance in Law
Transparency rules in clinical trials attempt to strike a balance between ensuring essential safety and efficacy data reaches the public, and preserving truly proprietary information that fosters innovation.
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March 13, 2025
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Decoding Front-of-Package Food Labels: Are They Really Telling Us What’s Healthy?
Food Safety
Decoding Front-of-Package Food Labels: Are They Really Telling Us What’s Healthy?
How do we know what is healthy? Given the link between healthy eating patterns and diet-related diseases, consumers need accurate information to make informed choices about which foods they should purchase.
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March 5, 2025
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Mind over Machine: Navigating the Legal and Ethical Frontier of Neurotech
Artificial Intelligence
Mind over Machine: Navigating the Legal and Ethical Frontier of Neurotech
Picture a world where a patient suffering from a debilitating neurological disorder receives not only a diagnosis but also a bespoke brain implant designed to restore lost function.
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February 27, 2025
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An End to “Springing Forward”: The Case for Permanent Standard Time
Government & Politics
An End to “Springing Forward”: The Case for Permanent Standard Time
On Dec. 13, 2024, then-President-Elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time… Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.”
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February 26, 2025
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Europe Tightens Data Protection Rules for AI Models—And It’s a Big Deal for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
Europe Tightens Data Protection Rules for AI Models—And It’s a Big Deal for Healthcare and Life Sciences
Imagine you’re a researcher developing an AI model, such as an algorithm or other computer process, that can predict early-stage cancer using data from thousands of patient records. You’ve been careful anonymizing datasets, following ethical guidelines,…
Could the Trump Administration Use CDC Powers to Enforce Hardline Immigration Policies?
Public Health
Could the Trump Administration Use CDC Powers to Enforce Hardline Immigration Policies?
The Trump administration has plans to use emergency public health powers to close the southern border and remove thousands of immigrants from the country. The only problem? There is no public health emergency.
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February 21, 2025
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Innovation, Law, and Ethics in International Bioscience
Innovation, Law, and Ethics in International Bioscience
Edited by Timo Minssen and Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, the symposium convenes leading researchers from the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law Program (Inter-CeBIL), which is supported by a generous scientifically independent grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF). The Inter-CeBIL initiative fosters knowledge networks…