What You Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine
Cross-posted from Harvard Law Today, where it originally appeared on December 3, 2020. By Jeff Neal The race to approve and distribute a vaccine for COVID-19 got a huge shot in the arm this week. On...
View ArticleHow Can Policymakers Encourage COVID-19 Vaccine Trials for Children?
Cross-posted from Written Description, where it originally appeared on December 18, 2020. By Jacob S. Sherkow, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Nicholson Price, and Rachel Sachs The past two weeks have been...
View ArticleFrom 9/11 to COVID-19: A Brief History of FDA Emergency Use Authorization
Cross-posted from COVID-19 and The Law, where it originally appeared on January 14, 2021. By Jonathan Iwry The ongoing fight against COVID-19 has thrown a spotlight on the Food and Drug Administration...
View ArticleExpanding The Right to Try Unproven Treatments: A Dangerous, Deregulatory...
By Richard Klein, Kenneth I. Moch, and Arthur L. Caplan A new proposal out of the Goldwater Institute (GI), a libertarian think tank, advances an oversimplified critique of the U.S. regulatory process...
View Article“Stick to the Science”? FDA, Ethics, and Pandemics
Cross-posted from COVID-19 and The Law, where it originally appeared on February 8, 2021. By Jonathan Iwry Throughout the current pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other public health experts have...
View ArticleA Proposal for Localized Review to Safeguard Genetic Database Privacy
By Robert I. Field, Anthony W. Orlando, and Arnold J. Rosoff Large genetic databases pose well-known privacy risks. Unauthorized disclosure of an individual’s data can lead to discrimination, public...
View ArticleWhy Do Differences in Clinical Trial Design Make It Hard to Compare COVID-19...
Cross-posted from Written Description, where it originally appeared on June 30, 2021. By Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Nicholson Price, Rachel Sachs, and Jacob S. Sherkow The number of COVID-19 vaccines...
View ArticleThe NIH Has the Opportunity to Address Research Funding Disparities
By Leah Pierson The Biden administration plans to greatly increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2022, presenting the agency with new opportunities to better align research...
View ArticleThe Surprising Shape of COVID Fraud
By James Toomey When the world went into lockdown in March 2020, many commentators noticed that social isolation could offer scammers an unprecedented opportunity to take advantage of people’s fear and...
View ArticlePicking Research Projects That Matter
By Leah Pierson Academia often treats all areas of research as important, and two projects that will publish equally well as equally worthy of exploring. This, I believe, is misguided. Instead, we...
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