By Dan Vorhaus and Phil Ross (cross-posted from Genomics Law Report) For years, and with increasing frequency, health care and information technology companies have touted the potential of mobile medical and health applications and technologies to…
We’re excited to introduce and welcome Cristiane Avancini Alves as a guest blogger for the month of December.
By I. Glenn Cohen There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the United States. The House of Representatives has proposed cutting the budget of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), one…
By Frank Pasquale Back in 2011, the AJLM had a symposium issue anticipating major issues in 1st Amendment limits on FDA restrictions on off-label marketing. It was a prescient move, as Prof. Robertson’s post shows. Just as…
By Christopher Robertson Invoking the First Amendment protection of speech, the Second Circuit today reversed a criminal conviction for a drug salesman’s promotion of a drug beyond its FDA-approved uses. The case in U.S. v.…
By Susannah Rose During my many years in healthcare as a clinician, researcher and hospital ethics consultant, I am dismayed by how little relative attention is given to ensuring that surrogate decision-makers (or “proxies”) have…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. In regulatory and research ethics circles, it is fairly common to hear people say they prefer the term “research participant” to “research subject” because they feel it’s more respectful. They…
By Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer have an interesting new article in the most recent issue of Ethics on “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason.” Abstract: Evolutionary accounts of the…
By Casey Thomson From policy adoption at the federal level to debate over the health concerns of political figures, this week’s round-up focuses largely on the news for bioethics and health law in the realm…
By Kathy Wang and Hyeongsu Park In the ongoing medical and legal battle over the deadly meningitis outbreak, the victims have been trying to freeze nearly $500 million in assets. US District Judge Dennis Saylor…
