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

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

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.

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

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…

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.

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.

“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…

In Argentina, austerity threatens hard-won progress in mental health. In Córdoba, the 12th March for the Right to Mental Health filled the streets with color and conviction — reminding us that mental health is built…

Academics and enthusiasts alike often consider the 1960s a “psychedelics golden age” of access, research, and culture.

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