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  • Data Privacy

    Getting Granular with Apple’s mHealth Guidelines

    By Nicolas Terry In a post last week I compared Apple’s new mHealth App store rules with our classic regulatory models. I noted that the ‘Health’ data aggregation app and other apps using the ‘HealthKit’ API…

    Getting Granular with Apple’s mHealth Guidelines

  • Bioethics

    Yale Bioethics Newsletter, 8/29/14

    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.

    Yale Bioethics Newsletter, 8/29/14

  • FDA

    Public Health Trumps Corporate Speech

    By David Orentlicher[Ed Note: Cross-posted at HealthLawProfBlog.] Reversing its previous deference to corporate speech interests, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit came down in favor of consumer protection in a July 29 decision.…

    Public Health Trumps Corporate Speech

  • Scientific Evidence

    Separating Fact from Fiction

    By Joanna K. Sax [Ed. Note: Cross-posted at HealthLawProfBlog] Rhetoric that misconstrues scientific knowledge to garner support for political positions is troubling. For many years, my scholarship has focused on the debate surrounding embryonic stem…

    Separating Fact from Fiction

  • Announcements

    Introducing the 2014-2015 Petrie-Flom Student Fellows

    The Petrie-Flom Center is pleased to welcome our new 2014-2015 Student Fellows. In the coming year, each fellow will pursue independent scholarly projects related to health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics under the mentorship of Center faculty and…

    Introducing the 2014-2015 Petrie-Flom Student Fellows

  • Climate

    Is Fracking Good or Bad?

    By Joanna Sax [Ed. Note: Cross-posted at HealthLawProfBlog.] It probably depends on who you ask. Proponents of fracking laud the energy independence, creation of jobs, environmentally friendly nature of natural gas, national security and economic benefits.…

    Is Fracking Good or Bad?

  • Announcements

    Introducing Jonathan F. Will

    By The Petrie-Flom Center We are excited to introduce Jonathan F. Will as a regular contributor to Bill of Health. Jonathan is an Associate Professor of Law and is the founding director of the Bioethics &…

    Introducing Jonathan F. Will

  • Health Insurance & Coverage

    Another Hole in the Halbig Verdict

    By The Petrie-Flom Center Much attention has been paid recently to the contradicting decisions issued on the Halbig and King cases, which challenged the Obamacare subsidies offered to individuals purchasing insurance on federal exchanges. In a piece for…

    Another Hole in the Halbig Verdict

  • Biotechnology

    The Revival of Phage Therapy to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – Part III: What about patent protection and alternative incentives?

    By Timo Minssen In Part II of this blog on legal issues relating to the revival of phage therapy I discussed the US Supreme Court’s decisions in Myriad and Prometheus, which might present major obstacles…

    The Revival of Phage Therapy to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) – Part III: What about patent protection and alternative incentives?