By Rachel Sachs The recent arrival of Ebola in the United States has captured the attention of both the public and the media for many reasons. One key reason is that Ebola is making many people realize for the first time that serious diseases which were formerly confined largely to developing countries have the potential to…
By Nicolas Terry Today’s order from Chief Judge LaVerdiere is available here. It removes restrictions on Kaci Hickox’s movements and essentially orders her to comply with the latest CDC guidelines that she was already following on a voluntary basis. According to this report the state troopers that had been posted outside her house have left. Two paragraphs…
By: Michelle Mello, JD, PhD Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine On November 4, Californians will vote on Proposition 46, a ballot initiative to adjust the $250,000 state’s noneconomic damages cap in medical malpractice cases for inflation, raising it to $1.1 million virtually overnight. It’s a long overdue move – California has one of…
By Scott Burris News in this afternoon is that a Maine state judge has lifted the quarantine order on nurse Kaci Hickox, saying that she “currently does not show symptoms of Ebola and is therefore not infectious.” The ruling conforms to the best available scientific evidence and CDC recommendations. It also shows the importance of judicial review…
The latest newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics is now available online. For an archive of past newsletters, please visit the Center’s website.
International Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare Conference November 6, 2014 8:30 AM – 5 PM November 7, 2014 9 AM – 1:30 PM Harvard Law School Milstein West A 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 RSVP to rcantor@hsph.harvard.edu. Please join us as we examine litigation on sexual and reproductive rights before international courts and tribunals…
Happy Halloween! Check out the October 31st edition of the Petrie-Flom Center’s biweekly e-newsletter for the latest on events, affiliate news and scholarship, and job and fellowship opportunities in health law policy and bioethics.
By Kate Greenwood[Cross-posted at Health Reform Watch] As I have blogged about before, last year, in Kaiser v. Pfizer, the First Circuit joined the handful of courts to have approved a causal chain of injury running from a pharmaceutical company’s fraudulent promotion, through the prescribing decisions of thousands of individual physicians, to the prescriptions for which…
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School collaborates with Stanford and Duke Universities to publish The Journal of Law and Biosciences (Oxford University Press), an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. JLB includes a New Developments section, comprised of brief summaries and commentary on recent legislation, regulation, and case law…
By Arthur Caplan Over at Time, Art Caplan argues that “Nervous government officials who seem more interested in appearing tough rather than letting science actually defeat Ebola in the United States are misusing quarantine.” Read more here.
