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Henrietta Lacks' family settles lawsuit over use of HeLa cells to advance medical research
Source: USA Today The lawsuit demanded the family be paid for the company's use of Henrietta Lacks' cells, which were taken without consent in the 1950s and used in research.
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A conflict of interest behind the warning on Apellis’ eye drug? The optics are not good
Source: STAT News A conflict of interest behind the warning on Apellis’s eye drug? The optics are not good.
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Senate panel approves 2% bump for NIH budget in 2024
Source: Science Spending measure also asks NIH to limit terms of directors to 10 years.
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Sociodemographic Disparities in Queue Jumping for Emergency Department Care
Source: JAMA Network This cross-sectional study evaluates the association between sociodemographic disparities and receiving emergency department care not in order of acuity or arrival time.
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WHO proposes best practices for clinical trials
Source: RAPS Regulatory Focus The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a draft guidance spelling out some of the important scientific and ethical considerations for well-designed clinical trials.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne’s resignation shows what happens when you don’t pay attention to lab
Source: STAT News Lab culture matters.
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Conflicts of interest in institutional review boards are a threat to ethical research
Source: Nature The introduction of publicly funded not-for-profit institutional review boards would realign incentives to promote research participants’ interests and improve accountability.
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FTC, OCR Warn Hospitals, Telehealth Firms About Tracking Tech, Enforcement
Source: Compliance Cosmos The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have issued a direct warning to more than 100 hospitals, health systems and telehealth firms alerting them to the “risks and concerns about the use of technologies...
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Asian American doctors, overrepresented in medicine, are largely left out of leadership
Source: STAT News Working hard and having all kinds of accomplishments may get you ... a faculty appointment, but it doesn’t get you into the C-suite,” said one Asian American doctor.
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How a Drugmaker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy
Source: New York Times Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.
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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI
Source: The White House Voluntary commitments – underscoring safety, security, and trust – mark a critical step toward developing responsible AI.
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Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?
Source: Nature Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers.
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