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  • Read more: When Surveillance Becomes Science: The Data the FDA Should Not Trust
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    When Surveillance Becomes Science: The Data the FDA Should Not Trust

    In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned a data broker called X-Mode Social from selling sensitive location data, charging that the company sold precise phone location data that could be used to track visits to reproductive health clinics, addiction treatment centers, and other sensitive sites. 

  • Read more: Making Americans Smokers Again? New Article Examines Federal Cuts to Anti-Tobacco Programs
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    Making Americans Smokers Again? New Article Examines Federal Cuts to Anti-Tobacco Programs

    The Trump administration’s goal of “Making America Healthy Again” is beginning to look more like “Making Americans Smokers Again.”

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  • Read more: So Much Regulation of Fluids and Emissions. Why Not Semen?
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    Reproductive Health

    So Much Regulation of Fluids and Emissions. Why Not Semen?

    Earlier this year, three members of Congress introduced what they dubbed the Clean Water for All Life Act. Here’s how this law delivers “clean water for all:” Physicians must examine the bodies of all patients to whom they prescribe abortion medication — that’s in the office, no telemedicine allowed — and hand them a medical waste…

  • Read more: Supreme Court Signals Reticence to Protect Public Health
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    Supreme Court

    Supreme Court Signals Reticence to Protect Public Health

    For some, the just-completed 2025-2026 term of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) represents a series of “glancing blows” related to the protection and promotion of the public’s health. 

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  • Read more: Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine: A New Medical School for Black Students
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    Professional Regulation

    Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine: A New Medical School for Black Students

    In the state of Louisiana, 32.6 percent of the population identify as Black, while 8.3 percent of the state’s physicians identify as Black. Across the nation, 13.7 percent of the population identify as Black, while 5.7 percent of physicians identify as Black. 

  • Read more: 2026 Annual Conference: Embryo Law and Ethics
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    2026 Annual Conference: Embryo Law and Ethics

    This writers-only workshop will be livestreamed for the public. The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce our 2026 Annual Conference: “Embryo Law and Ethics.” Since the 1980s it has been possible to create human embryos outside of the body and preserve them indefinitely through cryopreservation.…

  • Read more: Hot Topics in Embryo Law and Ethics
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    Hot Topics in Embryo Law and Ethics

    This public event will discuss legal and ethical issues related to disposition of cryopreserved embryos and the development of lab-grown “embryo models” which are created from pluripotent stem cells and mimic early human embryo development. An expert panel will discuss two complex issues at the intersection of law, medicine, and biotechnology. For years, patients going…

  • Read more: Making Argentina Less Safe: The Human Rights Consequences of Leaving WHO
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    Global Health & Human Rights

    Making Argentina Less Safe: The Human Rights Consequences of Leaving WHO

    On May 22, 2026, the World Health Assembly formally acknowledged Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a process that has now placed the country among the very few states to abandon the principal institution of global health governance.