Leadership at the intersection of health, ethics, technology, and law.

I am sad to report the passing of Peter Barton Hutt at 91. Peter was the “dean” of the food and drug law bar, a longtime partner at Covington, arguably FDA’s most important chief counsel in the modern era (serving in that role from 1971-1975), and the intellectual engine behind the field’s most used casebook…

Most people might assume that the health information on their phone is protected the way their medical records are. It is not.

In the last several years, notable shifts in Supreme Court jurisprudence have eroded the deference that courts have historically granted to health officials.

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In an advance directive, a legal document known informally as a living will, individuals specify and record their preferences for future medical care such as decisions on life-sustaining treatments in the event that they become unable to make decisions.