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By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang States were supposed to tell the administration by this Friday whether to create health insurance exchanges, online markets for private health insurance subsidized by the federal government (NY Times article here).…
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park One of the lesser-heralded decisions to come from the elections this Tuesday was the LA county ballot measure requiring male actors in the porn industry to wear condoms during…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang Uruguay’s Senate approved a bill that allows women to have abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy for any reason. Read the NY Times article about the topic here.…
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park The NY Times reported earlier this week on a split decision regarding a surrogacy case in New Jersey Supreme Court. The court’s decision held little clarity in interpreting who…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang In England, a High Court judge ruled that a profoundly brain damaged 3-year-old boy in foster care should not be given life support when his condition deteriorates, despite the…
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park Despite protests, Rhode Island instituted a mandate for flu shots for all healthcare workers. This includes doctors, nurses, other employees, and volunteers at hospitals, nursing homes, and health-related…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang On October 1, under the Affordable Care Act, Medicare started fining hospitals that have too many patients readmitted within 30 days of their discharge because of complications. A Seattle…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang [Ed. Note: We have a few weekly round-ups available here at Bill of Health (from Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and from Nic Terry‘s list of what’s worth reading…
By Hyeongsu Park In May 2012, Health Canada granted market authorization for Prochymal. This decision is the world’s first regulatory approval of a stem cell drug (as well as the first therapy for acute graft-vs-host…
