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September 12, 2019
5OTH ANNIVERSARY
** Hastings Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Programs
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The Hastings Center marked its 50th anniversary with an outdoor party on September 7. The kick-off event, held at its campus in Garrison, N.Y., was the first of a series of programs honoring The Hastings Center’s work past and present and looking ahead to the future.
“We are facing a tsunami of innovation that is moving so fast individuals, institutions and governments cannot keep up,” said Hastings president Mildred Z. Solomon, in remarks to more than 100 friends and colleagues, including cofounder Willard Gaylin, as well as present and former Hastings Center staff members, other ethics leaders, supporters, and researchers.
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IN THE MEDIA
** In the Media: What Democrats mean when they say they want to give undocumented immigrants healthcare
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"When you hear phrases like 'patchwork,' you're not kidding," said Nancy Berlinger, research scholar with The Hastings Center, a think tank focusing on social and ethical issues in health care, science and technology.
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** China’s grip on pharmaceutical drugs is a national security issue
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While national security experts have frequently warned about U.S. dependence on Chinese rare-earth metals, which are essential components in many high-technology military and commercial products, the pharmaceutical ingredient supply chain is far less understood — though potentially every bit as dire. Why? Because, as Rosemary Gibson, a senior adviser at the Hastings Center, recently testified ([link removed]) : “If China shut the door on exports of medicines and their key ingredients and raw material, U.S. hospitals and military hospitals and clinics would cease to function within months, if not days.”
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