“Unrepresented” veterans — those lacking both the capacity to make medical decisions on their own and surrogates to act on their behalf — face difficulty transitioning from VA hospitals to post-acute care facilities, such as…
Science is supposed to be self-correcting. That mechanism is broken.
New York is now the 14th U.S. jurisdiction to authorize Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), concluding a decade of legislative effort.
Is a 10-year-old capable of understanding their Miranda rights? What about an 8-year-old? This is an age-old policy question: How do we determine the right age cutoffs?
In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued Advisory Opinion OC-32/25 on the climate emergency, one of the most comprehensive judicial pronouncements on climate change to date.
In a recent episode of HBO’s hit medical procedural show The Pitt, two agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enter the emergency department.
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment — as well as the prison.”– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
The Petrie Flom Center recently welcomed Dov Fox, Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego School of Law, to discuss his new book.
Somewhere along the way, medicine made a quiet but consequential mistake. We invented a term called Full Code.
In a prior post, I discussed litigation (Martinez v. Kraft Heinz Company, et al.) against 11 manufacturers of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) for causing a 16-year-old to develop Type 2 Diabetes and Fatty Liver Disease.
