Developing an Ethics and Policy Framework for Psychedelic Clinical Care: A Consensus Statement.

Importance: As government agencies around the globe contemplate approval of the first psychedelic medicines, many questions remain about their ethical integration into mainstream medical practice.

Objective: To identify key ethics and policy issues related to the eventual integration of psychedelic therapies into clinical practice.

Evidence Review: From June 9 to 12, 2023, 27 individuals representing the perspectives of clinicians, researchers, Indigenous groups, industry, philanthropy, veterans, retreat facilitators, training programs, and bioethicists convened at the Banbury Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Evaluation of the Accuracy of Two Marking Methods and the Novel toriCAM Application for Toric Intraocular Lens Alignment.

Purpose: To compare the accuracy of two common reference marking methods for toric intraocular lens alignment before and after using the novel toriCAM application.

Methods: In this prospective, randomized study, 22 participants were randomly allocated to two groups, either freehand or slit-lamp-assisted marking. Corneal markings at 0° and 180° were made using either method.

Assessment of a personalized and distributed patient guidance system.

Objectives: The MobiGuide project aimed to establish a ubiquitous, user-friendly, patient-centered mobile decision-support system for patients and for their care providers, based on the continuous application of clinical guidelines and on semantically integrated electronic health records. Patients would be empowered by the system, which would enable them to lead their normal daily lives in their regular environment, while feeling safe, because their health state would be continuously monitored using mobile sensors and self-reporting of symptoms. When conditions occur that require medical attention, patients would be notified as to what they need to do, based on evidence-based guidelines, while their medical team would be informed appropriately, in parallel.

Supporting shared decision making within the MobiGuide project.

This paper describes our approach for fostering and facilitating communication among patients and caregivers in the context of shared decision making, i.e., when decisions must be taken not only on the basis of scientific evidence but also of the patient's preferences and context.

Social origins and post-high school institutional pathways: a cumulative dis/advantage approach.

The social stratification that takes place during the transition out of high school is traditionally explained with theoretical frameworks such as status attainment and social reproduction. In our paper, we suggest the cumulative dis/advantage hypothesis as an alternative theoretical and empirical approach that explains this divergence in institutional pathways as the result of the dynamic interplay between social institutions (in our case, schools) and individuals' resources. We use data from the NLSY79 in order to compute institutional pathways (defined by educational and occupational status) of 9,200 high school graduates.