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By The Petrie-Flom Center On November 21, the Petrie-Flom Center hosted a lecture by Neil Flanzraich on responsible pricing strategy, access to care, clinical trial design, outsourcing, and other topics that raise thorny but crucial issues for…
By The Petrie-Flom Center 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.
Imagine a rating or accreditation system for companies’ “global health footprint.” Such a system would rigorously assess companies’ overall impact on human health, including the health of the world’s poorest and sickest populations, then disseminate…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives By Frances M. Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Philosophy in the Harvard University Faculty…
By Jeffrey Skopek Last week, a World Trade Organization panel ruled that EU restrictions on the import of seal products are justified under a free trade exception for trade restrictions that are “necessary to protect public…
Imagine a rating or accreditation system for companies’ “global health footprint.” Such a system would rigorously assess companies’ overall impact on human health, including the health of the world’s poorest and sickest populations, then disseminate…
By Allison Hoffman The Obama administration announced last week that the federally-run small-employer health insurance exchanges (or “SHOP” exchanges) will be delayed for a year, until November 2014. This announcement, like others regarding delays in…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center invites abstracts for its 2014 Annual Conference: “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” The conference will be held at Harvard Law School on May 2 and 3, 2014,…
By Jeremy Kreisberg The November 2013 issue of the Yale Law Journal features a very interesting comment on an important issue at the intersection of health law and policy. A First Amendment Approach to Generic…
By Chloe Reichel 1) Following the legalization of medical marijuana in Massachusetts, 100 groups have applied for dispensary licenses. No more than thirty-five licenses are available within the state. 2) The Organization for Economic Cooperation…
