We think the human body is fully mapped. In reality, anatomy is still incomplete, and shaped by who was studied, and who wasn’t.
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Officials and policymakers say direct-to-consumer drug advertising encourages patients to seek treatments they don’t need and raises heath care costs, but the true picture is more nuanced.
Connecting health apps to health care can enable better care for patients with chronic diseases, and it has the potential to lower skyrocketing US health spending.
You might need permission to record a doctor’s appointment and extra permission to share it. That depends on where you live.
The EPA has just adopted a rule that limits what kinds of science regulators can use in setting rules. A scholar explains how this shift could impede his work mapping child lead poisoning.
A project involving tens of millions of patient records poses ethical issues, even though patients could ultimately gain. Here’s why privacy concerns are a hurdle.
Unless you take action to remove yourself before October 15, the federal government will make a digital copy of your medical record, store it centrally, and give numerous people access to it.
My Health Record is a step towards empowering patients with greater knowledge about their health – and could help save lives in emergencies.
Many Americans unable to afford health expenses are raising funds through medical crowdfunding. What are the risks?
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Former data protection and surveillance stream lead, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW Law Faculty, UNSW
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University
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Jim Gillespie is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Health Policy, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data & Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Health Technology Law, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Supply Chain and Business Analytics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol