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In June the Private Equity Stakeholders Project released a new report documenting more than 500 joint ventures between private equity firms and U.S. nonprofit hospitals. The post How Did So Many Nonprofit Hospitals Become So Profitable? first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
Over the past two decades, the number of U.S. allopathic medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has increased from 125 in 2004-05 to 154 in 2024-25. The post Harmeet Dhillon Scrutinizes the Nation’s Medical Schools first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or even a human being. It was a chatbot named Emilie. The post The Limits of Unauthorized-Practice in Regulating Mental Health AI first appeared…
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Sofia Palmieri, a health law scholar working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and regulation on both sides of the Atlantic. The post Why AI Literacy Isn’t Enough to Fix Chatbots: 6 Questions with Medical AI and Health Law Scholar Sofia Palmieri first appeared on Petrie-Flom…
Federal and state departments are rapidly expanding their use of artificial intelligence, and healthcare agencies are no exception. The post The Use of AI by Government Healthcare Agencies: Is It in the Public Interest? first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
In July, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced, in a video titled “The High T Department of War,” that every service member 30 and older will now be screened annually for testosterone deficiency . The post Testosterone, Informed Consent, and the Military Masculinity Complex first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Javier R. Mesa, a public defender turned behavioral neuroscientist whose work sits at the intersection of law and neuroscience. The post Mind-reading neurotech, algorithmic manipulation, and drug relapse: 6 Questions with Javier Mesa first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a memo that advances a vanishingly narrow reading of states’ longstanding legal duty to serve persons with disabilities in community-based settings, rather than in segregated institutions. The post Department of Justice Misuses Research by Persons with Disabilities to Justify Their Segregation first appeared on…
Recently, Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence model with a tantalizing promise: tools that could help researchers design drugs 10 times faster than current methods. The post AI Can Invent Drugs Faster. It Still Has to Prove They Work. first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
The provision of healthcare is responsible for roughly 8.5 percent of total carbon emissions in the United States. In turn, carbon emissions cause climate change and harm human health . The post Hospitals Can Save the Environment and Your Health — Or At Least Not Make Them Worse first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
The relationship between innovation and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become a central topic of concern for a whole host of parties: academics , members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine , and several former FDA commissioners . The post Innovation Politics at the FDA first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Hamm v. Smith , a case being heavily watched by both criminal justice and disability rights advocates for its potential impact on convictions for individuals sentenced to death involving a determination of intellectual disability. The post Intellectual Disability, Geography, and a Life-or-Death Decision first appeared on Petrie-Flom Center .
