Policy & Ethics

A modified version of this article appears in Harvard’s Bill of Health, which you can find here.

I’ve written in the past about upcoding in Medicare Advantage, where insurance companies document

For decades, HIV sufferers were bereft of effective treatment.  In 2001, five years after their tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) drugs were patented, Gilead Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval, and the drugs became prescribable.

Before jumping into this, let me ensure we are all on the same page regarding the four ethical pillars.

By Jeff Singer, M.D. and Josh Bloom, Ph.D

Last month, a bereaved mother sued two AI developers, Google and its parent, Alphabet, seeking damages for her teenage son’s suicide. The lad was seduced by a character he created in conjunction with a ChatAI algorithmic program.

Federal government policy- and decision-making requires deep scientific, technological, and medical expertise from innumerable departments, agencies, and personnel.

The headline in Science magazine, for example, asserted that “Supreme Court ruling ma

Given the recent appointment of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.