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Toward actionable biomarkers in psychiatry: a collaborative roadmap for precision clinical trials. An ACNP position paper

Abstract Psychiatric drug development remains constrained by diagnostic heterogeneity, insufficient and inconsistent drug response, high placebo response rates, and the absence of validated biomarkers that can reliably guide patient stratification, trial design, and regulatory de...

Measuring the Carbon Footprint for Health Systems and Suppliers: A Collaborative Field Study by Providence and Becton Dickinson

The carbon emissions from assets owned by health systems are a small fraction of their total carbon footprint. The emissions produced by their suppliers of products and services - such as electricity and transportation - are typically more than 10 times a hospital's direct emissi...

Discretionary disclosure and electoral accountability

Politicians often have discretion over what policy information to reveal to the public. This paper develops a formal model comparing electoral accountability under mandatory and discretionary disclosure. I identify a fundamental trade-off between detection − where voters directly...

Trust beyond borders: the role of non-state actors in shaping immigration preferences

Evidence for high-income countries suggests that higher levels of political trust, defined as confidence in state actors, are associated with greater openness to immigration. We argue that in contexts of weak state governance, trust in non-state actors, such as the church or inte...

E-ledgers Carbon Accounting

In prior publications, we introduced a global system of interconnected E-ledgers that produces—in as close to real time as practicable—accurate, comparable, and verifiable accounts of the cradle-to-gate (net) greenhouse gas emissions in any product or service that transacts in th...