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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…
Related to Nikola’s post below on the proposed revisions to the deceased donor kidney allocation policy, Al Roth has posted some interesting commentary from OPTN/UNOS Kidney Transplantation Committee Chair John Friedewald (in response to a query…
By The Petrie-Flom Center We’re pleased to introduce and welcome Nikola Biller-Adorno to our blogging community as an occasional contributor. Nikola directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has…
By The Petrie-Flom Center I’m starting to mark the passage of time by how quickly the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics Friday Newsletter seems to sneak into my mailbox. Enjoy this week’s version!
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…
Thanks to Pablo de Lora for pointing us to a new article from Bijan Fateh-Moghadam on the Cologne decision regarding male circumcision. From the article’s conclusion: Summing up, the Cologne Judgment misjudges the constitutional framework of…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Sorry for the late notice, but we just learned that Al Roth will be giving a talk with this title TODAY @ 3:30 at Stanford. More info here. Al has also pointed…
By The Petrie-Flom Center We have an award-winning blogger among us! Glenn Cohen’s posts on Personhood have been selected by The Post (a Green Bag-related entity) as among the best law blog posts of the past…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s (a somewhat abridged version of) this week’s newsletter from the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, with the latest bioethics news, scholarship, opinion, and other announcements. Take a look!
By Nadia N. Sawicki New York Law School’s Justice Action Center is hosting a symposium on elder law on Friday, November 16, titled “Freedom of Choice at the End of Life: Patients’ Rights in a Shifting…
