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By Holly Fernandez Lynch Just a quick pointer to an interesting new article out by Kara Loewentheil at Yale, When Free Exercise Is a Burden: Protecting ‘Third Parties’ in Religious Accommodation Law. Here’s her abstract…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch As everyone and their brother expected, SCOTUS has just decided to take up two cases challenging the contraceptives coverage mandate: Hobby Lobby, in which the 10th Circuit ruled in favor of…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Ladies and gentlemen, we have a newly revised Declaration of Helsinki, just announced today in a special online communication from JAMA. The revisions are accompanied by commentary from Paul Ndebele and…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This afternoon the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a panel discussion (with the HLS Library and the Harvard Global Health Institute) of Glenn Cohen‘s new edited volume out from Oxford University Press, The…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch and I. Glenn Cohen Our baby is 1! In September 2012, we launched Bill of Health with the goal of becoming your go-to place for news, commentary, scholarship, and debate in…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch In case you missed it, NYT had an interesting Op-Ed on Friday that addressed the inclusion of money for fertility treatments in divorce settlements – and made some suggestions about how…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Given my recent piece in the New England Journal on discrimination against patients, particularly obese patients in the context of the Americans with Disabilities Act, I found this NY Times story…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Take a look at the answer this physician received about breaking his promise of confidentiality to a patient. The New York Times’ Ethicist describes this as a modern problem, but it…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Last but not least! Our final conference panel focused on “Addressing the Challenges of and Harnessing New Technologies,” and was moderated by Fran Miller. We heard first from Margaret Riley on…
[Posted on behalf of Holly Fernandez Lynch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center (with the same disclaimer about the off-the-cuff nature of live blogging)] For the last plenary session of the conference, we heard from Susan Winckler, President and…
