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  • Biotechnology

    EPA Seeks Comments on Monsanto’s Request for Experimental Use of Genetically-Modified BT Corn

    Efthimios Parasidis The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that Monsanto’s request to plant a new strain of genetically-modified corn “may be of regional and national significance.”  As a result, the agency is seeking public comment on…

    EPA Seeks Comments on Monsanto’s Request for Experimental Use of Genetically-Modified BT Corn

  • Human Subjects Research

    Variability in Local IRB Regulation: A Gold Mine for Future Research

    By Christopher Robertson When I moved to the University of Arizona, I quickly discovered something that I’ll politely call “heterogeneity” in Institutional Review Board’s (IRB) policies and practices.  All of a sudden, some of the…

    Variability in Local IRB Regulation: A Gold Mine for Future Research

  • Bioethics

    Are You My Mother? (Guest Post for Kimberly Mutcherson)

    [Editorial Note: This Post is by Kimberly Mutcherson] Some states have come to terms with commercial surrogacy and create standards to protect parties to contracts and the children born of those contracts. New Jersey, however,…

    Are You My Mother? (Guest Post for Kimberly Mutcherson)

  • Publications

    Worth Reading This Week

    By Nicolas Terry Richard Epstein & David Hyman, Fixing Obamacare: The Virtues of Choice, Competition and Deregulation, SSRN/NYU Annual Survey of American Law Brendan Maher & Radha Pathak, Enough about the Constitution: How States Can Regulate…

    Worth Reading This Week

  • Holly Fernandez Lynch

    Thank You, Bill of Health Readers!

    Happy Thanksgiving!  Today, we just wanted to give a big thank you to our loyal readers, dedicated bloggers, and excellent commenters.  You’ve helped make Bill of Health a tremendous success in just a few short…

    Thank You, Bill of Health Readers!

  • Bioethics

    Another Contraceptives Mandate Case

    Following up on Chris Robertson’s and Kevin Outterson’s posts below (here and here), I just wanted to draw your attention to another federal district court opinion on the contraceptives coverage mandate.  This one is from…

    Another Contraceptives Mandate Case

  • Health Law Policy

    Connecting National Policy and Local Experience to Reverse Diabetes Disparities

    [Ed. Note: Today we’re happy to provide you with a guest post by Noreen M. Clark, PhD, Myron E. Wegman Distinguished University Professor, Director, Center for Managing Chronic Disease, University of Michigan] Health care disparities are perhaps…

    Connecting National Policy and Local Experience to Reverse Diabetes Disparities

  • Events

    Upcoming Event, 11/29/12 – Nourishing a Legal Career in the Life Sciences

    Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:00-4:00pm (reception to follow) Milstein Conference Rooms, Wasserstein Building, Harvard Law School Nourishing a Legal Career in the Life Sciences Please join us for a career discussion with Amy Schulman, Lecturer…

    Upcoming Event, 11/29/12 – Nourishing a Legal Career in the Life Sciences

  • Biotechnology

    Upcoming Event – Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism: Of Promise and Peril? 11/28/12

    Wednesday, September 28, 2012 3-4:30 pm (reception to follow) Austin 111, Harvard Law School Experimental breakthroughs within the field of regenerative medicine are reported in the media on a daily basis worldwide.  Despite this progress,…

    Upcoming Event – Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism: Of Promise and Peril? 11/28/12

  • Job Openings

    Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Law and Health Services Research

    The Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School invites applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship in pharmaceutical law and health services research.  Areas of focus…

    Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital Fellowship in Pharmaceutical Law and Health Services Research