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1 week ago
Anne Lyerly featured interview with NPR.
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dr. Anne Lyerly, a professor and OB-GYN, about how hospital ethics boards are being invoked when a patient requires a medical exception to an abortion ban. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/12/1162917337/in-states-with-abortion-bans-hospital-ethics-boards-have-the-power-to-make-excep
1 month ago
Anne Drapkin Lyerly has been elected as a new fellow of the Hastings Center
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 12 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. The new fellows focus on a broad range of …
2 months ago
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, is co-editor of a new special issue on “The Price of Progress” published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law.
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, is co-editor of a new special issue on “The Price of Progress: Managing Prescription Drug Spending” published by the Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law. The issue considers the sources of high drug spending in the U.S. and policy reforms to make prescription drugs more affordable, including analysis of provisions of …
2 months ago
STEPPS new recommendations address crisis of physician stress, a project led by Mara Buchbinder
New recommendations address crisis of physician stress