Author

Rachel Sachs

Robert I. Field is professor of law at the Kline School of Law and professor of health management and policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. He is also a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Global Health

    DARPA Announces Disease Forecasting Prize

    By Rachel Sachs On Friday, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a challenge to the public: provide the most accurate forecast of the spread of chikungunya virus in each of the countries in…

    DARPA Announces Disease Forecasting Prize

  • FDA

    The FDA Takes Steps Toward Regulating Laboratory-Developed Tests

    By Rachel Sachs On Thursday, the FDA finally began to take an action that it had been publicly contemplating for over four years: the regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). In the FDA’s words, LDTs are…

    The FDA Takes Steps Toward Regulating Laboratory-Developed Tests

  • FDA

    Limelight v. Akamai: Implications for Medical Method Patents

    By Rachel Sachs Last month, as it wrapped up the 2014 Term, the Supreme Court decided a patent law case that could have a major impact on method patents in the medical arena. No, I’m…

    Limelight v. Akamai: Implications for Medical Method Patents