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  • Public Health Law Research

    Dispatches from APHA 2012

    By Scott Burris Two thoughts for the Friday following the 2012 APHA Annual Meeting: (1) This is a public service message for public health lawyers and their extra-disciplinary significant others. The American Public Health Association…

    Dispatches from APHA 2012

  • Government Regulation

    Bill of Health Interview with Einer Elhauge on Health Care Reform

    As you have already heard a few times on this blog, Professor Einer Elhauge, the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director and Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, has a new book out on health…

    Bill of Health Interview with Einer Elhauge on Health Care Reform

  • Weekly Round-Up

    Worth Reading This Week

    By Nicolas Terry Sam Bagenstos, Federalism by Waiver after the Health Care Case, SSRN Thomas Lambert, Why the Affordable Care Act, as Construed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Will Fail, SSRN/Regulation Brietta Clark, Medicaid Access, Rate…

    Worth Reading This Week

  • Events

    Video from Obamacare on Trial Panel Discussion

    Video is now available from Einer Elhauge‘s recent Obamacare on Trial book talk and panel discussion with Glenn Cohen, Abbby Moncrieff, Sanford Levinson, and John McDonough.  Check it out: https://www.law.harvard.edu/media/2012/11/01_ms.mov There’s also a new review of the book by the National…

    Video from Obamacare on Trial Panel Discussion

  • Organs

    Should autopsies prevail over organ donation? A drama in three acts

    By Pablo de Lora Picture the scene (I). Its 4 am, November 1st. 4 young girls in their Halloween costumes are being rushed to the hospital after the tragic stampede that took place minutes ago…

    Should autopsies prevail over organ donation? A drama in three acts

  • Health Care Reform

    The Lopsided Giant

    By Christopher Robertson Professor Elhauge‘s provocative little book, Obamacare on Trial, has many of us rethinking and revisiting the NFIB v. Sebelius decision, and I had a chance to attend the nice book talk featuring Professor…

    The Lopsided Giant

  • Bioethics

    Using Tissue Samples to Make Genetic Offspring after Death

    By Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo Last month, John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka were jointly awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their research on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).  iPSCs are capturing the public imagination…

    Using Tissue Samples to Make Genetic Offspring after Death

  • Bioethics

    The Contraceptives Coverage Saga Continues…

    By Holly Fernandez Lynch Well, hopefully we’ll know the fate of the ACA by tonight.  But even if President Obama wins, there will still be uncertainty about the fate of the contraceptives coverage mandate. A…

    The Contraceptives Coverage Saga Continues…

  • Bioethics

    Upcoming Event – The Guatemala STD Inoculation Studies: What Should We Do Now?

    Tuesday, November 13, 2012 12:30-2:00 Wasserstein Hall, Classroom 3019 Harvard Law School In the late 1940s, US and Guatemalan researchers conducted a host of experiments on vulnerable Guatemalan subjects, purposefully exposing them to and infecting…

    Upcoming Event – The Guatemala STD Inoculation Studies: What Should We Do Now?