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Oral disease are a neglected area of global health, despite being among the most common ailments of mankind. Following the publication of a ground-breaking series of papers on oral health in The Lancet in July 2019, a Lancet Commission on...

Children and young people (CYP) who come into contact and / or conflict with the law are likely to have a neuro-disability (ND), which is a form of condition of the brain that leads to developmental impairment. The most common...

The nature and complexity of public health emergencies, like the current COVID-19 outbreak, raise a number of distinctive and profound ethical challenges. Yet, despite the existence of a number of authoritative ethics guidance documents and important ethical lessons learned as...

A multidisciplinary approach to endometriosis among transgender and gender diverse community.     “TRANSforming endometriosis research” aims to re-centre TGD people in endometriosis research and give voice to patients’ stories regarding this chronic condition as an intersectional experience. One of the...

a)What objects and artefacts did doctors and researchers mobilize at different moments in time to give a  visible  and  tangible  reality  to  diseases  whose  clinical  presentation  was  complex,  multifaceted,  and  sometimes partially unexplained?   b)What relevant methods and approaches allow historians to create meaning from vestiges of diseases of  the  past?  What  scientific  problems  (i.e.,  ethical,  legal,  scientific)  does  the  reuse  of  previous  medical  samples raise today?   The Summer School will be a 5‐day working conference structured around intensive discussion and hands‐ on  research  activities.  It  will  bring  together ...

The concept of the ‘severity’ or ‘seriousness’ of a genetic condition (disease/disorder) is pivotal to determining current, and future, applications of genomic medicine, particularly those relating to reproduction. Yet this concept remains nebulous and poorly understood (Molster et al, 2017;...

Data privacy, data property, and data sharing: an interdisciplinary dialogue for post-pandemic transnational research: The collection and processing of human biological samples and related health data for the purpose of transnational biomedical research is instrumental to contrasting the spread of...

The need for cooperation between States in the field of global health has been known  since the 19th century, when the first efforts at international coordination in the fight  against epidemics were made. These efforts were at the center of...

Le prochain Prix Brocher sera décerné le mercredi 28 juin 2023. Le parrain de la cérémonie sera le philosophe André Comte-Sponville qui donnera une conférence lors de la soirée.

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