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By Cansu Canca In April, a kidney donation from an unrelated living donor was put on hold in South Portland, Maine. The reason was unusual: the generosity of the community. In response to an online…
By Arthur Caplan A new piece by David Farber, Preeya Noronha Pinto, Bill of Health contributor Arthur Caplan, and Alison Bateman-House the Health Affairs blog: Over the past year, state Right-to-Try (RTT) laws that claim to enable terminally ill patients…
By Arthur Caplan A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: How bad is the obesity epidemic among kids in America? Bad enough that 69 percent of young adults in Minnesota cannot serve…
By Arthur Caplan A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara once were a huge item. Today, they are back in the tabloid press because of a dispute over…
By Rebecca Haffajee It’s established that the U.S. is in the midst of a prescription opioid overdose and abuse epidemic. From 1999 to 2011, the rate of fatal prescription drug overdoses involving opioids quadrupled from…
By Ameet Sarpatwari and Aaron S. Kesselheim Each month, the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School reviews the peer-reviewed medical literature…
By Cansu Canca The video “Who Pays the Price? The Human Cost of Electronics” recently went viral on social media. It purports to document the suffering of former workers of Chinese electronics factories that supply smartphones…
By Aditya Gupta By a detailed order passed last week, the Indian Patent Office rejected an application for compulsory license filed by a generic drug manufacturer BDR Pharmaceuticals International Pvt. Ltd. (“BDR”) seeking a license of Bristol…
By Cansu Canca In July, the Lancet covered Turkey’s development and implementation of universal health coverage extensively in an article and in supplementary comments. The main article, written by those who are directly involved in the development…
By Cansu Canca [In Part I, I considered, and rejected, arguments that doping harms the athletes and treats human nature wrongly.] Spirit of sport Let us now turn to the third objection: the use of…
