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Efthimios Parasidis

  • Health Law Policy

    Ohio State Seeks Founding Director of New Program on Data, Law, Ethics and Policy

    By Efthimios Parasidis The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law seeks a mid-level to senior tenured professor to serve as Professor of Law and founding director of the Program on Data, Law, Ethics and…

    Ohio State Seeks Founding Director of New Program on Data, Law, Ethics and Policy

  • FDA

    Public misinformed about seal of approval from US drug agency

    Efthimi Parasidis explores JAMA’s spotlight on FDA, Drugs, and Devices at The Conversation, a London-based news outlet. Click here to go to the article.  

    Public misinformed about seal of approval from US drug agency

  • Animal Rights

    How Well Do You Know Your Turkey?

    By Efthimios Parasidis In the United States, over 250 million turkeys are slaughtered each year, with over 45 million just for Thanksgiving. The overwhelming majority of these birds (over 99%) are a genetically engineered and…

    How Well Do You Know Your Turkey?

  • Global Health

    Haiti in a Time of Cholera

    By Efthimios Parasidis In the midst of “the world’s worst and fastest-spreading cholera epidemic“, with more than 685,000 infected and approximately 8,400 dead, five Haitian families are suing the United Nations in federal court in…

    Haiti in a Time of Cholera

  • Blog Symposia

    Call for Abstracts: 2013 Health Law Scholars Workshop

    By Efthimios Parasidis The Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) are pleased to announce the 2013 Health Law Scholars Workshop. The Health…

    Call for Abstracts: 2013 Health Law Scholars Workshop

  • Biotechnology

    Are Human Genes Patentable?

    By Efthimios Parasidis The Supreme Court will consider the patentability of human genes when it reviews the Myriad case this term. As Bill of Health readers are likely to know, the Myriad case centers on Myriad’s…

    Are Human Genes Patentable?

  • Biotechnology

    EPA Seeks Comments on Monsanto’s Request for Experimental Use of Genetically-Modified BT Corn

    By Efthimios Parasidis The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that Monsanto’s request to plant a new strain of genetically-modified corn “may be of regional and national significance.”  As a result, the agency is seeking public…

    EPA Seeks Comments on Monsanto’s Request for Experimental Use of Genetically-Modified BT Corn

  • Biotechnology

    FDA’s New Dance with Big Pharma: Are Patients the Band?

    By Efthimios Parasidis One week prior to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the health care cases, Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly voted in favor of health-related legislation (387-5 House; 96-1 Senate).  Industry and HHS were quick…

    FDA’s New Dance with Big Pharma: Are Patients the Band?