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  • Petrie-Flom Center

    Bill of Health 2025 Year-in-Review

    Social media, pharmaceutical pricing, neurotech, mental health, abortion, psychedelics, and GLP1s generated high interest on the Bill of Health blog this year.

    Bill of Health 2025 Year-in-Review

  • Health Care Finance

    Medical Debt is Bad, But Hospitals Make It So Much Worse

    Medical debt has become a fixture in our health care marketplace, with 41 percent of working-age Americans reportedly struggling to pay their medical bills.

    Medical Debt is Bad, But Hospitals Make It So Much Worse

  • Pharmaceuticals

    The FDA Patent History of Asthma Inhalers

    Even though asthma takes an enormous toll on patients throughout the United States, many struggle to afford asthma medication.

    The FDA Patent History of Asthma Inhalers

  • Reproductive Health

    Birth Centers Disentangled from Regulations: A Solution to Disappearing L&D Wards

    The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations. And yet, since 2020, a staggering 116 rural labor and delivery (L&D) wards in America have shuttered their doors, representing an 11 percent reduction in the overall number of…

    Birth Centers Disentangled from Regulations: A Solution to Disappearing L&D Wards

  • Patient Care

    Health Mediation: A New Perspective on Health Conflict Resolution

    In health law, we tend to speak about regulations and court rulings. But behind every case file, there is something more: a story, an emotion, and, above all, a person. 

    Health Mediation: A New Perspective on Health Conflict Resolution

  • Clinical Research

    Rethinking Evidence for Psychedelics in Medicine

    According to popular accounts, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) scheduling of LSD and other psychedelics in 1968 shut down promising research for decades.

    Rethinking Evidence for Psychedelics in Medicine

  • Events

    Event Recap: Toward Psychedelics Access: Go Faster or Slower?

    “We’re framing today as a relatively simple debate — perhaps an overly simple one,” began I. Glenn Cohen, Deputy Dean and Professor at Harvard Law School and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center, as he…

    Event Recap: Toward Psychedelics Access: Go Faster or Slower?

  • Psychedelics

    Darśana: A More Inclusive Spiritual Framework

    The legal category of “religion,” rooted in a Euro-Christian episteme, has outlived its usefulness as a universal category. 

    Darśana: A More Inclusive Spiritual Framework