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Six more months tacked onto regenerative medicine enforcement date
"The end of a discretionary enforcement period for regenerative medicine products was pushed back by another 6 months, according to a final guidance issued today by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." Associate Professor of the…
Corporate giving is just a piece of what's needed to heal the Twin Cities
"When Hurricane Katrina took aim at the Gulf Coast in 2005, Walmart executives gathered in a boardroom to discuss their corporate responsibility. They had stores, employees and customers in New Orleans. Even before they knew the toll of…
"We are tired; we're all just tired."
"Flattening the curve of COVID-19 doesn't mean it's gone away. That's one of several take-aways epidemiologist Dr. Catherine McCarty, PhD, MPH wants people to internalize. Some others? Wear a mask. You wear it for other people; not…
Joel Wu on Decision-making During a Pandemic
Joel Wu, JD, MPH, MA, HEC-C is the Center for Bioethics' Clinical Ethics Adjunct professor and senior lecturer in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health.
On June 12, he…
Could pressure for COVID-19 drugs lead the FDA to lower its standards?
Leigh Turner, PhD has worked tirelessly to uncover ethical issues in stem cell therapy marketing and regulation. In this piece by The Conversation, Turner examines whether the U.S. FDA is lowering its regulatory standards & being…
Neighbors, June 9: "We knew this was going to happen!"
Sometimes you just can't win. As public health officials watched the COVID-19 pandemic play out on the east and west coasts, they encouraged us here in the Midwest to social distance and wear masks. Now, when we're not swamped with a wave…
Explaining pandemic triage: When a picture is worth 3000 words
"Ethics and its implications for healthcare delivery under constraints of scarcity are not simple concepts, even for those working within the hea
Clap all you like now, but workers with meaningful jobs deserve to be valued in a post-coronavirus economy too
"The coronavirus recession has laid bare how illogically the U.S. labor market values work that matters. In the United States, as elsewhere, citizens have been extolling the role of essential workers – such as nurses, grocery suppliers and…
New Study: Parents Struggle to “Break the Ice” When it Comes to Advance Care Planning with their Adolescents with Cancer
In a study co-authored by Jennifer Needle, MD, MPH, researchers found that parents of teens with cancer have a poor understanding of when their adolescents would like to discuss end-of-life care. The study aimed to
Minnesota grapples with promise of COVID-19 drug in limited supply, unknown cost
"This round of medication is on the house. The next one will be, too. But eventually, California's Gilead Sciences will start charging Americans for remdesivir, the drug that recently became the only therapeutic agent shown to cut down the…