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NHC Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities

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A 2019 study highlighted that physicians’ biases could influence their clinical decision-making, which underscores the importance of awareness and training to mitigate such biases.15 Medical futility and disability bias: part of the bioethics and disability series. Chronic pain among adults – United States, 2019-2021.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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”It’s imprudent and unwise and not the way forward, even for people who are very ill,” said Dr. Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the NYU Langone hospital system in New York who chaired a university panel that studied the FDA’s compassionate use program.

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