In an advance directive, a legal document known informally as a living will, individuals specify and record their preferences for future medical care such as decisions on life-sustaining treatments in the event that they become unable to make…
In June the Private Equity Stakeholders Project released a new report documenting more than 500 joint ventures between private equity firms and U.S. nonprofit hospitals.
Over the past two decades, the number of U.S. allopathic medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has increased from 125 in 2004-05 to 154 in 2024-25.
In May, Pennsylvania’s State Board of Medicine filed a lawsuit in the state’s Commonwealth Court against Character Technologies seeking to prevent it from engaging in unauthorized medical practice. The alleged “practitioner,” however, was not a physician or…
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Sofia Palmieri, a health law scholar working at the intersection of medicine, artificial intelligence, and regulation on both sides of…
Federal and state departments are rapidly expanding their use of artificial intelligence, and healthcare agencies are no exception.
In July, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced, in a video titled “The High T Department of War,” that every service member 30 and older will now be screened annually for testosterone deficiency.
Berkeley Law Life Sciences Law & Policy Center Director Vincent Joralemon recently sat down with Javier R. Mesa, a public defender turned behavioral neuroscientist whose work sits at the intersection of law and neuroscience.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) released a memo that advances a vanishingly narrow reading of states’ longstanding legal duty to serve persons with disabilities in community-based settings, rather than in…
Recently, Anthropic unveiled an artificial intelligence model with a tantalizing promise: tools that could help researchers design drugs 10 times faster than current methods.
