In May 2015, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine (DME) embarked on a novel pilot program to support equitable expanded-access allocation of a J&J investigational medicine. Expanded access (EA), also known as compassionate use, is a treatment pathway, regulated by health authorities, to […]
In my roles at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), I often find myself bridging two worlds: the academic and the communal. As a Senior Research Staff Associate managing a longitudinal study on aging dementia and a member of the New York Presbyterian Adult Clinical Ethics Committee, I have come to learn a truth that many […]
Sometimes, those wearing face masks, such as surgical masks or N95 respirators, are asked whether their doing so is performative. The question is often a veiled judgment. It might be a surprise, but yes, wearing a mask is in fact performative. But, by performative I do not mean “pretending-to-be-better-than-you-virtue-signaling” or “less-than-fully-committed” or even “look-at-me-and-my-fake-attempts-to-avoid-sickness,” as […]
In December 2024 surgeons at New York University reported on the third case of a kidney from a gene-edited pig being transplanted into a living human. As of Jan 25, 2025, she was the only person in the world living with a pig organ. Many scientific journals, and the mainstream media, tout xenotransplantation as a […]
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