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The thorniest questions facing pharma, according to a leading bioethicist

PharmaVoice

Bioethics guru Arthur Caplan of NYU gives his outspoken and frank opinion on the industry’s minefield of ethical challenges.

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Opinion: Getting to ‘Plan B’ for psychedelic medicine: Lessons from reproductive health

STAT

As executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, my work includes legal, ethical, and policy analysis surrounding psychedelic medicine. But if lessons from reproductive health are any signal, I believe there is a future for psychedelics in health care.

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The essential biotech updates of the day

STAT

Today, we talk about bioethics, catch up on some reports from ESMO, and wonder aloud and in print over a surprising liquid biopsy bet. The need-to-know this morning Ascendis Pharma reported positive results from a Phase 3 study of  Transcon CNP in children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.

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STAT+: Venture capitalists want to own hospitals. Can they do better than private equity?

STAT

Given workforce shortages, clinician burnout, rising drug costs, and a surging aging population, “it’s not that big a leap to say that more such purchases are going to occur,” said Robert Klitzman, a Columbia psychiatry professor and director of its bioethics masters program.

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Bioethics International reveals index to score pharma on trial diversity

Outsourcing Pharma

The not-for-profit organization published its fair inclusion score to measure and rank pharmaceutical companies on their inclusion of women, older adults, and racial and ethnic minoritized patients.

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

STAT

”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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Bayer Pharmaceuticals accelerates innovations for patients

LifeProNow

Bayer works on leveraging all the possibilities of the technologies while fully integrating all regulatory and bioethical requirements.” ” [link] The post Bayer Pharmaceuticals accelerates innovations for patients appeared first on LifeProNow.

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