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- Transgender Medicine Focus of New Publication
Posted on November 2, 2016
The November issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics is devoted to transgender health and medicine. Contributors include Elizabeth Dietz, a project manager and research assistant at The Hastings Center,... - Mildred Solomon on Controversial Duchenne Drug Approval
Posted on October 28, 2016
Writing in the Health Affairs Blog, Hastings Center president Mildred Solomon says that the Food and Drug Administration’s controversial decision to approve the first drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy is... - New Hastings Center Fellows Elected
Posted on October 27, 2016
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of eight new Fellows. Hastings Center Fellows are a group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment, whose work has informed scholarship and/or... - Leon R. Kass Named 2016 Beecher Award Recipient
Posted on October 26, 2016
Leon R. Kass has been named the recipient of The Hastings Center’s 2016 Henry Knowles Beecher Award. For more than four decades, Dr. Kass has been deeply engaged with ethical... - President Solomon Identifies Four Big Questions of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
Posted on October 10, 2016
Advances in information technologies and artificial intelligence, biological sciences, and physical sciences are recognized as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, holding promise for bringing great benefits but also harms. Hastings Center... - Johnston Discusses Ethical Concerns about Human Gene Editing
Posted on September 9, 2016
Josephine Johnston, The Hastings Center’s director of research, discussed the science of human gene editing, the policy activity it has triggered, and the moral and ethical concerns that it raises...
