Category Science and Technology
Access to Physicians’ Prescription Habits
Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon calls attention to issues of accessibility and transparency related to the collection and sale of physician prescribing data by data solution companies.
Analytics and the Prevention of Suicide
Greg Horne describes how data on social media can be used to identify and concentrate resources on groups who are at risk of suicide.
Blinded by the Promise of Stem Cell Treatments
Alan F. Cruess cautions against the use of unproven stem cell ‘treatments.’
Gene Therapy: A Threat to the Deaf Community?
Teresa Blankmeyer Burke considers the problematic nature of gene therapy research aimed at eliminating hereditary deafness.
Human germline genome editing: An ‘impressive’ sleight of hand?
Françoise Baylis wonders how it is that in 14 months (from December 2015 to February 2017), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine have moved human germline genome editing out of the category ‘irresponsible’ and into the category ‘permissible.’
