By Scott Burris You’ve probably heard about the good news/bad news experience of Stephanie Bongiovi, daughter of rocker Jon Bon Jovi. A college student, she ODed on heroin, but help was summoned and she’s going to…
By Christopher Robertson Yesterday (Friday Nov 16), U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the contraceptive coverage mandate that was part of the regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).…
By Hyeongsu Park and Kathy Wang States were supposed to tell the administration by this Friday whether to create health insurance exchanges, online markets for private health insurance subsidized by the federal government (NY Times article here).…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Here’s this week’s edition of the Yale Friday Newsletter, slightly edited for our audience. Enjoy!
By Nicolas Terry Kevin Outterson, Regulating Compounding Pharmacies after NECC, NEJM\ Katherine Pratt, A Constructive Critique of Public Health Arguments for Anti-Obesity Soda Taxes and Food Taxes, SSRN/Tulane L.Rev. Ronald Bayer, Lawrence Gostin, & Daniel Marcus-Toll,…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch Talk about perfect timing. Just on the heels of Tuesday’s fantastic event at HLS on the Guatemala STD Inoculation studies (video to come soon), the Presidential Commission for the Study of…
By Susannah Rose The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care recently published a report entitled, “What Kind of Physician Will You Be?: Variation in Health Care and Its Importance for Residency Training.” (2012; https://www.dartmouthatlas.org/pages/residency). Briefly, this…
By I. Glenn Cohen My colleague Jonathan Lazar who studies the way in which the web creates barriers to people with disabilities mentioned to me a neat program/event that may be of interest to some…
By Scott Burris There’s so much we still don’t know about the prescription opioid problem. The partial remedies advanced so far reflect this: Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, which in essence define the problem as doctor-shopping…
By Katie Booth This November, voters weighed in on an array of state ballot initiatives on health issues from medical marijuana to health care reform. Ballot outcomes by state are listed below (more after the jump).…
