While looking into credentials in clinical ethics, I came across one I had never seen before: the “Certified Health Care Ethics Consultant,” with the initials HCEC-C. For a moment, I thought I was looking at a typo. The credential I know well, the one I hold, is the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified, or HEC-C. This […]
The All of Us research biobank recently announced a massive new data release – making it the largest health database in the world that allows researchers to access both donated genomic information as well as participants’ electronic medical records (EMRs). That combination can allow researchers to associate the genomic variations that we all have with […]
Black Americans experience nonfatal firearm assault at a rate more than 20 times that of White Americans. For Black men, this epidemic runs even deeper. It reflects a pattern that has held for decades: firearm assault rates are highest among Black Americans, while rates of firearm suicide are highest among White Americans. Black Americans bear […]
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is emotionally and financially taxing, especially for women of advanced maternal age. As maternal age increases, the risk of chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidy) in embryos rises, heightening fears of conditions like Trisomy 21, or Down syndrome. Capitalizing on this anxiety, the IVF industry heavily promotes Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) as […]
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